1984 Ed.]
Magistrates (Forms) Rules
[CAP. 227
C 61
[Subsidiary]
FORM 77
(s. 67.]
Oral or written acknowledgment of undertaking to pay civil debt
HONG KONG.
IN THE Magistrate's Court at
Between
(Address Description)
(Address Description)
and
Plaintiff,
Defendant.
It was this day (or on the day of 19 ) adjudged by the undersigned (or J Esquire), a magistrate of the said Colony, that the plaintiff should recover against the defendant the sum of for debt (or damages) and for costs, amounting together to the sum of ; and it was ordered that the defendant should pay the same to the plaintiff forthwith (or on or before the day of 19 ), or by instalments of for every day of days, the first instalment to be paid on the day of 19 ), and that the defendant should be at liberty to give, to the satisfaction of a magistrate (or as in the judgment), security in the sum of with surety in the sum of [each], for the payment of the sum so ordered to be paid as thereby directed:
Now, therefore, I, the defendant, as principal, and we, and of as sureties (or I, as surety), hereby undertake that the defendant will pay the sum so ordered to be paid as thereby directed; and I, the said defendant, and we (or I) the said sureties (or surety), hereby severally acknowledge ourselves bound to forfeit and pay to in case the defendant fails to perform this undertaking.
Signed (where not taken orally)
Taken [orally] before me this day of 19
Defendant.
Sureties.
[L.S.]
Explained by
Magistrate,
Sworn Interpreter.
NOTE—Where the recognizance is taken orally omit the words "the undersigned" and insert the word "orally" after "Taken".
PART III
FORMS FOR INDICTABLE OFFENCES
FORM 78
Caution to and statement by accused
HONG KONG.
Before
IN THE MAGISTRATE'S COURT AT
. Esquire, a magistrate of the said Colony.
[s. 82.]
(hereinafter called the accused) stands charged before the undersigned, a magistrate of the said Colony, for that he, on the day of 19 at [etc., as in the heading to the depositions] and the said charge being read to the accused