THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 28TH JANUARY, 1899.
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18. It shall be lawful for the Court to authorize a solici- Suing for tor to commence a suit for the recovery of his costs against costs within the party chargeable therewith and also to refer his bill of when client costs and the demand of such solicitor thereupon to be about to leave taxed, although one month shall not have expired from the the Colony, delivery of the bill of costs, on proof to the satisfaction of etc. the Court that there is probable cause for believing that Vict. c. 79, the party chargeable therewith is about to quit the Colony s. 2. or to become a bankrupt or a liquidating or compounding debtor, or to take any other steps or do any other act which, in the opinion of the Court, would tend to defeat or delay such solicitor in obtaining payment. The concluding sen- tence of section 37 of the English Act, 6 and 7 Vict. e. 73, from and inclusive of the words "Provided also that it shall be lawful for any judge of the superior courts of law and equity," down to the end of such section, is hereby repealed, so far as it is in force in this Colony.
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19.-(1.) Any solicitor to whom, either alone or jointly Charges, etc. with any other person, a mortgage is made, or the firm of where mort- which such solicitor is a member, shall be entitled to receive gage is made for all business transacted and acts done by such solicitor tor. or firm in negotiating the loan, deducing and investigating 58 and 59 the title to the property, and preparing and completing the Vict. c. 25, mortgage, all such usual professional charges and remuner- 8. 2. ntion as be or they would have been entitled to receive if such mortgage had been made to a person not a solicitor, and such person had retained and employed such solicitor or firm to transact such business, and do such acts; and such charges and remuneration shall accordingly be recover- able from the mortgagor.
(2.) This section applies only to mortgages made after the commencement of this Ordinance.
to recover
20. (1.) Any solicitor to or in whom, either alone or Right of soli- jointly with any other person, any mortgage is made or is citor with vested by transfer or transmission, or the firm of which whom mort- such solicitor is a member, shall be entitled to receive gage is made and recover from the person on whose behalf the same is costs. done or to charge against the security for all business Ibid, s. 3, transacted and acts done by such solicitor or firm subse- quent and in relation to such mortgage or to the security thereby created or the property therein comprised, all such usual professional charges and remuneration as he or they would have been entitled to receive if such mortgage had been made to, and had remained vested in, a person not a solicitor, and such person had retained and employed such solicitor or firm to transact such business and do such acts, and accordingly no such mortgage shall be redeemed except upou payment of such charges and remuneration.
(2.) This section applies to mortgages made and busi- ness transacted and acts done either before or after the commencement of this Ordinance.
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21. No person who shall have been admitted as a solicitor Six months of the Supreme Court of Judicature in England or as an residence in attorney or writer in one of the Courts at Dublin or Edin- Colony burgh shall be admitted to practise within the Colony as a before admis
necessary solicitor otherwise than as a clerk to a solicitor or firm of sion as soli- solicitors practising in the Colony until he shall have actually citor. resided in the Colony for a period of six months next preceding such admission and unless he shall have previously given six months' notice in writing to the Registrar of the Court of his desire and intention to apply to be so admitted; but any person who may have been admitted to practise as a solicitor within the Colony as a clerk to another solicitor or firm of solicitors shall, after having so practised for a period of six months, be deemed to have been admitted to practise within the Colony as a solicitor and shall be entitled so to practise upon his own account unless pre- cluded from so doing by any lawful agreement or under- taking.
mission as solicitor.
22. Any person, who may be admitted to practise within Fees for ad- the Colony as a solicitor whether upon his own account or as clerk to another solicitor or firm of solicitors practising within the Colony, shall, upon such admission, pay a fee of one hundred and fifty dollars.
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