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 in 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