§ On the Order of the Day for taking into consideration the Commons' Reason for insisting on their Amendment to this Bill.
Lord Campbellsaid, that he had another ground of discussion and of difference with the Government upon the subject of the present Bill, which however was one entirely divested of all party feeling; the present Bill originated in the defective state of the Common Law, as far as related to persons resident abroad, who were not liable to any process issued out of the Courts in their own country. The Bill proposed to make the service of a writ good wherever it might be effected; and consequently when a debtor residing abroad, was once served with the process of the Court of Law of his own country, he was liable, if he had no defence to the action, to have his real and personal estate seized to make good the claim against him. This principle had been adopted by the Legislature, and the present Bill was the result. In conclusion he should move that the consideration of the Commons' Reason be postponed until that day six months.
§ On Question, resolved in the affirmative. The Bill is therefore lost.