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which he was asking leave to introduce. They were three in number, 

 namely : 



1. To empower Courts having insolvency jurisdiction to declare 

 a person to be insolvent on his personal application, although he might 

 not have been arrested in execution of a decree. 



2. To limit the power of the Civil Court in respect of the sale of 

 immovable property in satisfaction of a decree for money to cases in 

 which the property was specifically pledged as security for the claim 

 decreed. 



3. To enforce the reduction into writing of all contracts so 

 pledging immovable property, and the registration of the instruments 

 embodying such contracts. 



