Chancery Receivers (Ireland) Act, 1856

Power to Court to direct sale of any real estate at any stage of a suit.

6. It shall be lawful for the Court in any suit pending or to be instituted therein in relation to any real estate, if it shall appear to the Court that it will be necessary or expedient that the said real estate, or any part thereof, should be sold for the purposes of such suit, to direct the same to be sold at any time after the institution of such suit; and such sale shall be as valid, to all intents and purposes, as if directed to be made by a decree or decretal order on the hearing of such suit, or at any other stage of the proceedings therein, and shall be carried out according to the course and practice of the Court, and according to such general orders as may from time to time be made by the Court for regulating such sales, and securing the title of the purchasers thereunder; and any party to the suit in possession of such estate, or in receipt of the rents and profits thereof, shall be compelled to deliver up such possession or receipt to the purchaser, or such other person as the Court shall direct.