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Jurisdiction of court of vice warden of Stannaries.
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68. In the case of companies under this Act, and engaged in working mines within and subject to the jurisdiction of the Stannaries, the court of the vice warden of the Stannaries shall have and exercise the like jurisdiction and powers, as well on the common law as on the equity side thereof, which it now possesses by custom, usage, or statute in the case of unincorporated companies, but only so far as such jurisdiction or powers are consistent with the provisions of this Act and with the constitution of companies as prescribed or required by this Act; and for the purpose of giving fuller effect to such jurisdiction in all actions, suits, or legal proceedings instituted in the said court, in causes or matters whereof the court has cognizance, all process issuing out of the same, and all orders, rules, demands, notices, warrants, and summonses required or authorized by the practice of the court to be served on any company, whether registered or not registered, or any member or contributory thereof, or any officer, agent, director, manager, or servant thereof, may be served in any part of England without any special order of the vice warden for that purpose, or by such special order may be served in any part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or in the ‘adjacent islands, parcel of the dominions of the Crown, on such terms and conditions as the court shall think fit; and all decrees, orders, and judgments of the said court made or pronounced in such causes or matters may be enforced in the same manner in which decrees, orders, and judgments of the court may now by law be enforced, whether within or beyond the local limits of the Stannaries; and the seal of the said court, and the signature of the registrar thereof, shall be judicially noticed by all other courts and judges in England, and shall require no other proof than the production thereof: The registrar of the said court or the assistant registrar, in making sales under any decree or order of the court, shall be entitled to the same privilege of selling by auction or competition without a licence, and without being liable to duty, as a judge of the Court of Chancery is entitled to in pursuance of the Acts in that behalf.
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