ORDINANCES Nos. 8 AND 9 OF 1845.
Criminal Proceedings.
Supreme Court-Summary Jurisdiction.
the Court; nor because of any error committed in summoning or swearing the jury, or any of them; nor because any person who has served upon the jury has not been returned by the sheriff; nor because of any objection which might have been stated as a ground of challenge of any of the jurors, except the objection of minority; nor for any informality in swearing the witnesses, or any of them.
7. And be it further enacted and ordained, that in the construction of this Ordinance, wherever, in describing any person or party, matter or thing, the word importing the singular number or the masculine gender only is used, the same shall be understood to include, and shall be applied to, several persons or parties as well as one person or party, and females as well as males, and several matters or things as well as one matter or thing respectively, unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction.
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Interpretation clause.
[Repealed by Ordinance No. 3 of 1865.]
No. 9 of 1845.
An Ordinance to invest the Supreme Court of Hongkong with a summary Jurisdiction in certain Cases.
WHEREAS it is expedient that debts and damages of a small and trifling amount should be recoverable in the Supreme Court of Hongkong in a summary and expeditious manner:-
1. Be it therefore enacted and ordained by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, that the said Supreme Court shall have full power and authority to hear and determine in a summary way, and without the intervention of a jury, all disputes and differences between party and party touching any matter of debt, breach of covenant or promise, injury to the person or property, or other matter, where the debt or damages sought to be recovered shall not exceed the sum of one hundred dollars, [Amended by Section 2 of Ordinance No. 3 of 1849.] except the matter in question shall relate to the title of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or to the taking of any duty payable to Her Majesty, or to any fee of office or other matter where rights in future might be bound, or to any general right or duty: Provided that no party shall be precluded or exempted from suing or being sued under the aforesaid summary jurisdiction by reason of his or her not having attained the full age of twenty-one years, or by reason of coverture where the husband shall not be resident within the said Colony of Hongkong. [Amended further by Ordinance No. 5 of 1854.]
Title.
Preamble.
Summary jurisdiction of Court. [See Ordinance No. 5 of 1854.]