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Evening Star, Issue 2962, 16 August 1872, Page 3

The Bankruptcy Act. —An important judgment (says the New Zealand Herald) has just been given by the Court of Appeal in a matter of bankruptcy. The facts arc simple. A creditor sues a debtor and obtains judgment. The debtor therefore files his petition in bankruptcy. The creditor proves against the bankrupt estate. The debtor gets the usual protection and passes his last examination, and now pro ends upon the judgment previously obtained, and puts the debtor in prison. The question arises whether the debtor is not still under protection. The debtor, in the hope of release asks his discharge from debts. He is told, however, that this will not cure the consequences of the judgment and execution obtained in another Court Ihe remedy is not to ask fora discharge in bankruptcy or a review or the judgment in the Court below, but special application to the Supreme Court upon affidavits setting out the whole of the facts. Ultimately the debtor and be seeks to bring an