During these present sittings Vaughan Williams Lj and myself have on more than one occasion had to consider Order xi, and we have had many authorities discussed and fully considered by the court, and the conclusion to which the authorities led us I may put under three heads. First we adopted the statement of Pearson J, in Societe Generale de Paris v Dreyfus Brothers (2885) z9 Ch D ~ 3~, zq z, that `it becomes a very serious question, and ought always to be considered a very serious question, whether or not, even itl a case like that, it is necessary for the jurisdiction of the court to be invoked, and whether this court ought to ~ put a foreigner, who owes no allegiance here, to the inconvenience and annoyance of being brought to contest his rights in this country, and I for .,^. ~ S