SHORT TITLE.

905

Schedule, contd.

AMENDMENT OR REPEAL.

60. The Code of Civil

Procedure, 1901. (No. 8 of 1901.), -contd.

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(3) of sums of money which were or may have been due and owing by the deceased at the time of his death and are or may be still due and owing and which have come to the knowledge of the executors or administrators or any of them, but in respect of which no claim has been received or sent in as aforesaid.

The report shall state to which of such claims or sums of money or parts thereof respectively the estate of the deceased is in the opinion of the Registrar justly liable, and his belief that such claims or sums of money or parts thereof respective- ly are justly due and proper to be allowed and the reasons for such belief.

662. When adjudicating upon the claims Adjudication of persons claiming to be creditors the on claims. court in its discretion may allow any of 0. 55, r. 52. such claius, or any part thereof respec- tively, without proof by the claimants, and may direct all or any of the claims not so allowed to be investigated in such manner as it may think fit, and may require any further particulars, information, or evid- ence, relating to such claims, and may require any claimant to attend and prove his claim, or any part thereof, and may adjourn the adjudication upon such claims. as are not then allowed.

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0. 55, r. 53.

663. Where on the day appointed for Adjourn- adjudicating upon the claims of persons Further claiming to be creditors any of such claims evidence. are adjourned or renmin undisposed of. another day for adjudicating upon

such claims shall be fixed, and where further evidence is to be adduced, the times for filing evidence in support of and in op- position to the claims may be fixed, and in that case the proceedings shall be ad- journed until the evidence is completed.

664. Notice of allowance shall be given Notice of by such party as the court may direct to claims every creditor whose claim, or any part allowed or thereof, has been allowed. Notice shall disallowed. be given by such party as aforesaid to 0.55, r. 54. every person claiming to be a creditor whose claim or any part thereof shall not have been allowed to prove his claim or such part thereof as is not allowed, by a time to be nained in such notice, not being less than seven days after such notice, and to attend at a time to be therein mentioned, being the time appointed for adjudicating on the claim; and in case the claimant shall not comply with such notice, his claim, or such part thereof as aforesaid, may be disallowed. No person claiming to be a creditor need Unless make any affidavit nor attend in support served of his claim (except to produce his with notice security) unless he is served with a notice need not requiring him to do so. Every person attend.

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