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ORDINANCE No. 7 OF 1862.
Court of Summary Jurisdiction.
Form of Dismissal.
A. B.—Plaintiff.
C. D.—Defendant.
Hongkong. It appearing to this Court that the plaintiff entered his plaint and caused the above defendant
to wit.
to be summoned to attend this Court for (here state the cause of action or complaint;) and the said plaintiff having failed to prove his said plaint, it is hereby ordered and decreed by the said Court, that the plaint of the said A. B. be, and the same is hereby dismissed: And that the said defendant do recover against the said plaintiff the sum of
for costs: And the said A. B. the plaintiff is hereby
ordered and directed forthwith, on demand, to pay the said C. D. the defendant the said sum of so awarded for his costs herein as aforesaid, and on failure thereof, process will issue to take in execution the goods, chattels, and effects of the said A. B., or his body, to satisfy the said costs.
Dated the
day of
in the year of our Lord, 186
Defendant's costs, ...........
Judge.
To Mr.
Hongkong.
Writ or Precept to Bailiff.
COURT OF SUMMARY JURISDICTION
Between A. B.—Plaintiff.
and C. D.—Defendant.
To the bailiff, and his assistants.
You are hereby commanded to levy of the goods, chattels, and effects, lands, tenements, and
to wit.
hereditaments, of
sum of
which
for
of
of
in the Colony of Hongkong, the lately recovered against damages and costs; and if you shall not find any goods,
chattels, or effects, or any lands, tenements, or hereditaments belonging to the said defendant whereof to levy, then you are hereby commanded to take and arrest the body of the said defendant, and him safely to lodge in one of Her Majesty's gaols, there to remain for the period of
months unless he shall sooner pay the damages and costs due to satisfy the said
his damages and costs, as aforesaid, and have you there this writ.
plaintiff
Witness E. F., Judge of the said Court at Victoria,
Judgment......
Costs
the
in the
day of
year of our reign.
[L. S.]
Alias, or Pluries.
You are hereby commanded, as before you were commanded, (or, as "oftentimes" before you were commanded, and then follow the above form).
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