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IRISH BANKRUPT AND INSOLVENT ACT 1857 - SECT 121

If adjudication be not obtained within five days after petition, any other creditor may proceed on it, &c.

121. If the petitioning creditor shall not proceed and obtain an adjudication
within five days after his petition shall have been filed, or within such
extended time as shall be allowed by the Court, the Court may, at any time
within seven days then next following, upon the application of any other
creditor to the amount required to constitute a petitioning creditor, proceed
to adjudicate on such petition, upon the proof of the debt of such creditor,
and of the other requisites to support such petition (except the debt of the
petitioning creditor); but if neither the petitioner nor any other creditor
shall within such seven days, or within such extended time as may be granted
by the Court for that purpose, apply to the Court to proceed to adjudication,
such petition shall be forthwith dismissed.

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