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or publishing fraudulent statements.
No person to be exempt from answer-ing questions
but not to be liable to pro-secution for compulsory disclosure.
No remedy at Law or in Equity shall be affected.
Convictions
shall not be evidence in civil suits.
ORDINANCE No. 7 OF 1865.
Larceny, &c.
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to any of the punishments which the Court may award as hereinbefore last mentioned.
69. Whosoever, being a director, manager, or public officer of any body corporate or public company, shall make, circulate, or publish, or concur in making, circulating, or publishing, any written statement or account which he shall know to be false in any material particular, with intent to deceive or defraud any member, shareholder, or creditor of such body corporate or public company, or with intent to induce any person to become a shareholder or partner therein, or to intrust or advance any property to such body corporate or public company, or to enter into any security for the benefit thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to any of the punishments which the Court may award, as hereinbefore last mentioned.
70. Nothing in any of the last ten preceding sections of this Ordinance contained shall enable or entitle any person to refuse to make a full and complete discovery by answer to any Bill in Equity, or to answer any question or interrogatory in any civil proceeding in any Court, or upon the hearing of any matter in bankruptcy; and no person shall be liable to be convicted of any of the misdemeanors in any of the said sections mentioned by any evidence whatever in respect of any act done by him, if he shall at any time previously to his being charged with such offence have first disclosed such act on oath or declaration, in consequence of any compulsory process of any Court of Law or Equity, in any action, suit, or proceeding which shall have been bona fide instituted by any party aggrieved, or if he shall have first disclosed the same in any compulsory examination or deposition before the hearing of any matter in bankruptcy.
any Court upon
71. Nothing in any of the last eleven preceding sections of this Ordinance contained, nor any proceeding, conviction, or judgment to be had or taken thereon against any person under any of the said sections, shall prevent, lessen, or impeach any remedy at Law or in Equity which any party aggrieved by any offence against any of the said sections might have had if this Ordinance had not been passed; but no conviction of any such offender shall be received in evidence in any action at Law or suit in Equity against him; and nothing in the said sections contained
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or publishing fraudulent statements.
No person to be exempt from answer- ing questions
but not to be liable to pro- secution for compulsory disclosure.
No remedy at Law or in Equity shall be affected.
Convictions
shall not be evidence in civil suits.
ORDINANCE No. 7 OF 1865.
Larceny, &c.
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to any of the punishments which the Court may award as hereinbefore last mentioned.
69. Whosoever, being a director, manager, or public officer of any body corporate or public company, shall make, circulate, or publish, or concur in making, circulating, or publishing, any written statement or account which he shall know to be false in any material particular, with intent to deceive or defraud any member, shareholder, or creditor of such body corporate or public company, or with intent to induce any person to become a shareholder or partner therein, or to intrust or advance any property to such body corporate or public company, or to enter into any security for the benefit thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to any of the punishments which the Court may award, as hereinbefore last. mentioned.
70. Nothing in any of the last ten preceding sections of this. Ordinance contained shall enable or entitle any person to refuse to make a full and complete discovery by answer to any Bill in Equity, or to answer an
question or interrogatory in any civil proceeding in any Court, or upon the hearing of any matter in bankruptcy; and no person shall be liable to be convicted of any of the misdemeanors in any of the said sections mentioned by any evidence whatever in respect of any act done by him, if he shall at any time previously to his being charged with such offence have first disclosed such act on oath or declaration, in consequence of any compulsory process of any Court of Law or Equity, in any action, suit, or proceeding which shall have been bond fide instituted by any party aggrieved, or if he shall have first disclosed the same in any compulsory examination or deposition before the hearing of any matter in bankruptcy.
any Court upon
71. Nothing in any of the last eleven preceding sections of this Ordinance contained, nor any proceeding, conviction, or judgment to be had or taken thereon against any person under any of the said sections, shall prevent, lessen, or impeach any remedy at Law or in Equity which any party aggrieved by any offence against any of the said sections might have had if this Ordinance had not been passed; but no conviction of any such offender shall be received in evidence in any action at Law or suit in Equity against him; and nothing in the said sections contained
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