890.
it is
un of
or
A.B.
veral
val in
A.D. 1890.
37 16778 RATEN,
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737
unless the said several sums, and all costs and charges of the said distress, shall be sooner paid.
[...]
(Signed.)
Magistrate.
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*
Or, where the issuing of a distress warrant would be ruinous to the defendant or his family, or it appears that he has no goods whereon to levy a distress, then, instead of the words between the asterisks,
"then, inasmuch as it has now been made to appear to me that the issuing of a warrant of distress would be ruinous to the defendant and his family" [or "that the defendant has no goods or chattels whereon to levy the said sums by distress"].
FORM NO. 24.
Order for any Matter (other than the Payment of a Civil Debt) where Disobedience to the Order is punishable by
HONGKONG.
IN THE Police COURT AT
Imprisonment.
Before J. P., Esquire, a Magistrate of the said Colony, sitting at the said Police Court.
The
day of
A.B. having made a complaint that C.D. (hereinafter called the defendant) [state the facts entitling the complainant to the order, with the time and place when and where they occurred]; and the parties aforesaid having appeared for the said A.B. having appeared but the defendant, although duly called, not having appeared by himself or his counsel, and it being now satisfactorily proved to me upon oath that the defendant has been duly served with the summons in this behalf, which required him to be and appear here on this day before such Magistrate as might now be here, to answer to the said complaint, and to be further dealt with according to law; and now, having heard the matter of the said complaint, it is adjudged and ordered that the defendant do [state the matter required to be done]; and if, on a copy of a minute of this order being served on the defendant, either personally or by leaving it for him at his last or most usual place of abode, he refuses or neglects to obey this order, then it is adjudged that the defendant for such his disobedience be imprisoned in Victoria Gaol in the said Colony [and there kept to hard labour] for the space of
unless the said order shall be sooner obeyed [if the Ordinance or statute authorizes this]; and it is also adjudged and ordered that the defendant do pay to the complainant the sum of
for his costs in this behalf forthwith [or on the day of
or by instalments,
etc..]; and if default is made in payment according to this adjudication and
Sections 23 and 48.