Application for relief by way of interpleader
18.01 Application for relief by way of interpleader
A person (the stakeholder) may apply to the Court for relief by way of interpleader if:
the stakeholder is liable for a debt or personal property in the stakeholder’s possession (the property in dispute); and
the stakeholder:
does not know the identity of the person to whom the property in dispute is owed or belongs; or
has received competing claims about the property in dispute; or
expects to be sued in the Court for the property in dispute by 2 or more persons making adverse claims.
Interpleader is a special procedure available to a person who is faced with 2 or more claims about the same debt or personal property. The procedure enables the competing claimants to litigate their difference while the stakeholder abides by the result.
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