-Hours for
service.
Sundays and holydays.
Bail.
Discretion of Court.
Security for costs.
Pauper plaintiff'; defendant.
Counsel or attorney for pauper.
Pauper dis
paupered for giving fee;
or for insufficient poverty.
Days.
Sundays and holydays, when noć reckoned.
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RULES OF SUPREME COURT
259. Service of a document not required to be served personally must be made before five o'clock in the evening.
If made after that hour on any day but Saturday, it shall be consi- dered as made on the following day.
If mane after that hour on Saturday, it shall be considered as made on the following Monday.
260. No service in a civil suit shall be made on Sundays, Christmas Day, or Good Friday.
Absconding Defendant
261. Where the Court is satisfied by evidence on oath that there is good reason to believe that a defendani means to abscond in order to avoid the process of the Court, after suit or other proceeding institu'ed, the Court may make an order to hold him to bail, and may require of him such security as seems fit for his remaining within the particular juris- diction, and abiding by and performing any decree or order to be made in the suit or proceeding, and for costs and fees.
Costs
262. The costs of the whole suit and of each particular proceeding therein are in the discretion of the Court; but the Court shall not order the successful party in a suit to pay to the unsuccessful party the costs of the suit generally, although the Court may order him, not with- standing his success in the whole suit, to pay the costs occasioned by any particular proceeding therein.
263. The Court may, if in any case it sees fit, require any party to any suit or proceeding, either at the commencement or at any time during tbe progress thereof, to give security for costs to the satisfaction of the Court by deposit or otherwise.
Paupers
264. The Court may admit any person to sue in formá pauperis on being satisfied of his poverty, and that he has primâ facie a case proper for some relief in the Court; and my admit any person to defend in formá pauperis on being satisfied of bis poverty.
265. If in any case the Court thinks fit to assign a counsel or attorney to assist a person admitted to sue or defend in formâ pauperis, the counsel or attorney so assigned may not refuse his assistance, unless he satisfies the Court of some good reason for refusing.
266. If a pauper gives or agrees to give any fee, profit, recompense, or reward for the despatch of his business in Court, he shall be deemed guilty of a contempt of Court, and he shall also be forthwith dispampered, and shall not be afterwards admitted again in that suit to sue or defend in formá pauperis.
267. A person admitted to sue or defend in formâ pauperis may be dispaupered, by order of the Court, on its appearing that he was not when a mitted, or no longer is of sufficient poverty, or that he is abusing his privilege by vexatious proceedings.
Computation of Time
268. Where by these Rules, or any special order or the course of the Court, any 1.mited time from or after any date or event is appointed or allowed for the doing of any act or the taking of any proceeding, and such time is not limited by hours, the computation of such limited time does not include the day of such date or of the happening of such event, but commences at the beginning of the next following day, and the act or proceeding must be done or taken at the latest on the last day of such limited time according to such computation.
269. Where the limited time so appointed or allowed is less than six days, the following days shall not be reckoned in the computation of such