Merchant Shipping Act, 1894

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Power of court to prohibit transfer.

30. Each of the following courts; namely,—

(a) in England or Ireland the High Court,

(b) in Scotland the Court of Session,

(c) in any British possession the court having the principal civil jurisdiction in that possession; and

(d) in the case of a port of registry established by Order in Council under this Act, the British court having the principal civil jurisdiction there,

may, if the court think fit (without prejudice to the exercise of any other power of the court), on the application of any interested person make an order prohibiting for a time specified any dealing with a ship or any share therein, and the court may make the order on any terms or conditions they think just, or may refuse to make the order, or may discharge the order when made, with or without costs, and generally may act in the case as the justice of the case requires; and every registrar, without being made a party to the proceeding, shall on being served with the order or an official copy thereof obey the same.

Mortgages.