96 CHANCERY. [ART. 16.

shall appoint; and on such answer being filed, such proceedings
shall be had as would or might have been had in case such
answer had been filed before the passage of such interlocutory
order or decree, but the court shall impose such terms on the
defendant as the condition of permitting such answer to be filed
as such court may, in its discretion under all the circumstances
of the case, judge reasonable and proper for avoiding delay or
expense, and for the attainment of justice; and the filing of such
answer shall in no case affect the validity of any commission
previously issued to take testimony, or of the proceedings, or
any of them, under such commission, or of any testimony pre-
viously taken and returned under any such commission.

118. The court may, for the purpose of executing a decree, or
to compel the defendant to perform and fulfil the same, issue at-
tachment of contempt, attachment with proclamations and se-
questration against the defendant, and may order an immediate
sequestration of the real and personal estate and effects of the
defendant, or such parts thereof as may be necessary to satisfy
the decree and clear the contempts, or may issue a fieri facias
against the lands and tenements, goods and chattels of the de-
fendant, to satisfy the said decree, or may issue, an attachment
1 by way of execution against the lands, tenements, goods, chattels
and credits of the defendant, to satisfy the said decree, or the
court may cause, by injunction, the possession of the estate and
effects whereof the possession or a sale is decreed, to be de-
livered to the plaintiff, or otherwise, according to the tenor
and import of such decree, and as the nature of the case may
require; and in case of sequestration, the court shall order pay-
ment and satisfaction to be made out of the estate and effects
so sequestrated, according to the true intent and meaning of the
decree ; and in case any defendant shall be arrested and brought
into court upon any process of contempt issued to compel the
performance of any decree, the court may, upon motion, order
such defendant to stand committed, or may order his estate and
effects to be sequestrated, and payment made as above directed,
or possession of his estate and effects to be delivered, by injunc-
tion as above directed, until such decree or order shall be fully
performed and executed, according to the tenor and true meaning
thereof, and the contempt cleared; but where the decree only
directs the payment of money, no defendant shall be imprisoned,
and process of commission of rebellion and sergeant-at-arms are
abolished.

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