CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE.
No. 3 of 1901.
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376. Any person, not being a party to a cause or matter, who obtains any order, or in whose favour any order is made, shall be entitled to enforce obedience to such order by the same process as if he were a party to such cause or matter; and any person, not being a party to a cause or matter, against whom obedience to any judgment or order may be enforced shall be liable to the same process for enforcing obedience to such judgment or order as if he were a party to such cause or matter.
General rules relating to execution..
Order for
or against
person not
a party.
0. 42, r. 26.
and sale in
377. The following property is liable to attachment and sale in execution of a judgment, namely, land, houses, goods, money, bank notes, cheques, bills of exchange, promissory notes, government securities, bonds, or other securities for money, debts, shares in the capital or joint stock of any public company or corporation, and all other property whatsoever, whether movable or immovable, belonging to the judgment debtor, and whether the same is held in his own name or by another person in trust for him or on his behalf.
Description of property
liable to
attachment
and sale in
execution of
judgment.
H.K. Code,
s. 70 (7)
378. All moneys payable under a judgment on which a writ of execution has been issued shall be paid into court unless the court otherwise directs.
Payment of moneys into
court.
H.K. Code, s. 70 (8).
379. As between the original parties to a judgment, execution may issue at any time within six years from the recovery of the judgment.
Period within which
execution may issue.
0. 42, r. 22.
Duration
and renewal
of writ.
380. A writ of execution, if unexecuted, shall remain in force for one year only from its issue unless renewed in the manner hereinafter provided; but such writ may, at any time before its expiration, by leave of the court be renewed by the party issuing it for one year from the date of such renewal and so on from time to time during the continuance of the renewed writ, either by being marked by the Registrar with the seal of the court and with the date of the day, month and year of such renewal or by such party giving a written notice of renewal to the bailiff, signed by the party or his solicitor and marked in like manner; and a writ of execution so renewed shall have effect, and be entitled to priority, according to the time of the original issue thereof.
0. 42, r. 20.