law: The Joint-stock Companies Act, 1857
  LXXVII. Execution upon certain judgments within three months of petition to be void-
  If, upon any judgment or decree voluntarily suffered by any Company being insolvent to any person with intent to give such person a preference over other creditors of the Company, any attachment, sequestration, or execution is issued against such Company, by virtue whereof the estate and effects of the Company, or any of them, are attached, sequestrated, or taken in execution, at any time within three months next before the filing or presentation of the petition for winding-up the Company, such attachment, sequestration, or taking in execution shall be void in favor of the Liquidators of the Company, as against the attaching, sequestrating, or execution creditor, whether the same has been completely executed or not, except that such creditor shall, if the attachment, sequestration, or execution would have been valid but for this provision, be entitled to retain, out of any money already realized, his costs of suit, and of the attachment, sequestration, or execution, or to proceed with the attachment, sequestration, or execution for the purpose of realizing such costs ; but on satisfaction of such costs, or on tender of the amount thereof by the Liquidators to the creditor, it shall be lawful for the Liquidators to recover from such creditor the property so attached, sequestrated, and taken in execution, and the proceeds of such property, or the residue thereof, as the case may be.