Re General Horticultural Company, Ex parte Whitehouse: ChD 1886

Wills, to whom a sum had been allowed in a winding up for work done for the liquidator, charged the amount due to him as security for the payment of three debts, the total amount of which exceeded the sum due to him from the company. Notice of the first charge was duly given to the liquidator. Some time later Whitehouse obtained a judgment against Wills, which he sought to enforce by garnishee order nisi against the sum due from the company. Later, the second and third of Wills’ creditors gave notice to the liquidator of their charges. It was accepted that the interest of the first chargee could not be overridden by the garnishee order, but a question arose whether Whitehouse was entitled to execute on the remainder of the debt, notwithstanding the second and third chargees.
Held: He could not. A garnishee order ‘charges only what the judgment debtor can himself honestly deal with’. Section 62 describes the order nisi as binding the judgment debtor’s chose in action in the hands of the garnishee. The effect of the order, is to give the judgment creditor execution against the debts owing to his debtor.
Chitty J
(1886) 32 Ch D 512
Common Law Procedure Act 1854 62
England and Wales
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CitedSociete Eram Shipping Company Limited and others v Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corp Ltd, Compagnie Internationale de Navigation HL 12-Jun-2003
The appeal concerned a final third party debt order (formerly a garnishee order). A judgment in France was registered here for enforcement. That jurisdiction was now challenged.
Held: A third party debt order is a proprietary remedy operating . .
CitedTaurus Petroleum Limited v State Oil Marketing Company of The Ministry of Oil, Republic of Iraq SC 25-Oct-2017
The parties disputed their contract arrangements. It was referred to an arbitration in London, but applying Iraqi law. The respondent failed to meet the award made against it, and the claimant sought to enforce the award here by means of third party . .

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Updated: 09 August 2021; Ref: scu.183519