In Re Insolvency Of Jayasekere

1926 Present: Jayewardene and Maartensz A. JJ.

In re the Insolvency of JAYASEKERE.

179-D. C. Galle, 507.

Insolvency-Refusal of certificate-Second adjudication on same debt.

Where a person had been refused a certificate in insolvency proceedings, a second adjudication cannot be obtained on a debt which had been proved in the first insolvency.

APPEAL from an order of the District Judge of Galle.

Soertsz (with him Jansz), for appellant.

March 2, 1926. JAYEWARDENE A. J.-

This is an appeal against an order refusing to adjudge the appellant insolvent. In case No. 507 of the same Court the appellant was adjudged insolvent, but he was refused a certificate on October 2, 1923. The present application was initiated by the appellant filing a declaration of insolvency on November 7 last. On the 10th of the same month one Dewarahandi Endoris de Silva filed a petition and applied that the estate of the appellant be adjudged insolvent and placed under sequestration in terms of section 10 of the Insolvency Ordinance, 1853. He stated that the appellant was indebted to him in a sum of Rs. 1,000 on a promissory note dated January 3, 1923. The

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