706 SECRETARIAL PRACTICE 
registrar for registration the company shall be deemed to have 
continued in existence as if its name had not been struck off; and 
the court may by the order give such directions and make such 
provisions as seem just for placing the company and all other persons 
in the same position as nearly as may be as if the name of the company 
had not been struck off. 
(7) A notice to be sent under this section to a liquidator may be 
addressed to the liquidator at his last known Place of business, and 
a letter or notice to be sent under this section to a company may be 
addressed to the company at its registered office, or, if no office has 
been registered, to the care of some director or officer of the company, 
or, if there is no director or officer of the company whose name and 
address are known to the registrar of companies, may be sent to 
each of the persons who subscribed the memorandum, addressed to 
him at the address mentioned in the memorandum 
Property of dis- 
solved company 
to be bona 
vacantia. 
296. Where a company is dissolved, all property and rights 
whatsoever vested in or held on trust for the company immediately 
before its dissolution (including leasehold property but not including 
property held by the company on trust for any other person) shall, 
subject and without prejudice to any order which may at any time 
be made by the court under the two last foregoing sections of this 
Act, be deemed to be bona vacantia and shall accordingly belong 
to the Crown, or to the Duchy of Lancaster or to the Duke of Cornwall 
for the time being, as the case may be, and shall vest and may be 
dealt with in the same manner as other bona vacantia accruing to 
the Crown. to the Duchy of Lancaster or to the Duke of Cornwall 
Sthecial Provisions as to Stannavies. 
Attachment of ~~ 297. When several companies are in course of liquidation by or 
So She to con- under the supervision of the court exercising the stannaries jurisdic- 
ai tion and acting under ‘that jurisdiction, if it appears to the judge 
stannaries court. that a person who is a contributory of one of the companies is also 
a creditor claiming a debt against one of the other companies, the 
judge may (if after inquiry he thinks fit) direct that the debt, when 
allowed, shall be attached, and payment thereof to the creditor 
suspended for a time certain as a security for payment of any calls 
that are or may in course of liquidation become due from him to 
the company of which he is a contributory; and the amount thereof 
shall be applied to such payment in due course: 
Provided that such an order of attachment shall not prejudice 
any claim which the company so indebted to the creditor may have 
against him by way of set off, counterclaim, or otherwise, or any 
lawful claim of lien or specific charge on the debt in favour of any 
third person. 
Preferential pay- 298. In the application to companies within the stannaries of the 
ments in provisions of this Act with respect to preferential payments. the 
stannaries cases. . . » 
following modifications shall be made ‘—