A.D. 1890.]
MAGISTRATES.
"Indictment" includes an information in the Court: “Offence punishable summarily or on summary conviction
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any crime or offence which a Magistrate is empowered to deal with summarily:
66 · Civil Debt ' means any sum of money claimed to be due which is recoverable under this Ordinance or any past or Future Ordinance or statute before a Magistrate or before a Justice or Justices of the Peace on complaint and not on information:
Oath includes affirmation and declaration :
“Counsel means any barrister, advocate, or solicitor having the right of audience before any Court in the Colony :
C. 49 x 18.
The Magistrate's Clerk includes « (where there is more than one of 42 & 43 167. such Clerks) either or any of such Clerks or such other person as a Magistrate from time to time directs to do any thing required by this Ordinance to be done by the Magistrate's Clerk:
"Prescribed " means prescribed or provided by any Ordinance or statute in force in the Colony which relates to any offences, penalties, fines, costs, sums of money, orders, proceedings, or matters to the punishment, recovery, making, or conduct of which this Ordinance expressly or impliedly applies or may be applied :
66 Past Ordinance or Statute" means any Ordinance or Act of Parliament now in force in the Colony :
“Future Ordinance or Statute” means any Ordinance or Act of Parliament which shall come into force in the Colony after the commencement of this Ordinance :
“Fine” includes any pecuniary penalty, or pecuniary forfeiture, or pecuniary compensation payable under a conviction or order:
Sum adjudged to be paid by a conviction" and "sum adjudged to be paid by an order" respectively include any costs adjudged to be paid by the conviction or order, as the case may be, of which the amount is ascertained by such conviction or order :
Appellant" means the party appealing under Part VI from a decision of a Magistrate or of two Magistrates sitting together:
Party" includes the Crown and also any person aggrieved within the meaning of sections 98 and 103:
Respondent" means the opposite party whose interest conflicts with the interest of any person appealing within the meaning of the said last-mentioned section:
"Prison" means the Victoria Gaol, and also includes any other site and building or place set apart for the purposes of a prison by order of the Governor.
Ib. s. 49.
3. The provisions of this Ordinance which enable a Magistrate, not- Saving as to