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No. 2 of 1901.
LAW AMENDMENT.
Provision for sitting with Miscellaneous Provisions.
15.—(1) The Court may, in any civil cause or matter, call in the aid of one or more assessors specially qualified, and try or hear such cause or matter wholly or partially with the assistance of such assessor or assessors.
[36 & 37 Vict. c. 66 s. 56.]
(2) The remuneration, if any, to be paid to such assessor or assessors shall be determined by the Court.
16. Any person shall have power to assign personal property now by law assignable, including chattels real, directly to himself and another person, by the like means as he might assign the same to another.
[22 & 23 Vict. c. 35 s. 21.]
No. 3 of 1901.
To establish a Code of Civil Procedure.
[1st July, 1901.]
1. The Code of Civil Procedure.
Short title.
2. In this Ordinance,
"The Court" means the Supreme Court and includes the Chief Justice and any other Judge, sitting separately, in Court or in Chambers:
"The Registry" means the Registry of the Court:
"The Registrar" means the Registrar of the Court:
"The bailiff" means a bailiff of the Court and includes any person lawfully authorised to execute the process of the Court:
"This Code" means the Code of Civil Procedure established by this Ordinance:
"The Hongkong Code of Civil Procedure" means the Code of Civil Procedure established by Ordinance No. 13 of 1873, and repealed by Ordinance No. 6 of 1901 (both as numbered before the coming into force of the edition of the Statute Laws of the Colony prepared under Ordinance No. 36 of 1900 now numbered as Ordinance No. 12 of 1900); and the expression shall have the same meaning when used in any other Ordinance:
* As amended by No. 1 of 1912.
† As amended by No. 1 of 1912 and No. 2 of 1912.
§ As amended by No. 36 of 1911, No. 50 of 1911, No. 1 of 1912, No. 27 of 1912 and No. 43 of 1912.