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IRISH BANKRUPT AND INSOLVENT ACT 1857 - SECT 343

343. Any [debtor] unable to meet his engagements with his creditors and
desirous of laying the state of his affairs before them under the control of
the Court, and of submitting himself to the jurisdiction of the Court in
manner herein-after mentioned, may present a petition to the Court setting
forth the true cause of such inability, and praying that his person and
property may be protected from process until further order; and the Court on
such petition shall have power to grant such protection, and may renew the
same from time to time as it shall think fit, and, if the petitioner be in
prison [by virtue only of an order of committal made under [Article 107 of the
Judgments Enforcement (Northern Ireland) Order 1981], in respect of a debt
incurred prior to the presentation of his petition], may, ... order his
release, either absolutely or on condition ....

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