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The Chinese, falls into a passion with the hedge,
who, whether he decided right or wrong,
decided
on
which
within his competency. conflicting Affidavits, and on
ni a
mather clearly which there were
he wat
obliged to decide
sing
me way
or the other
Of the subsequent measures for repay.
ad
they
Are
the Chinaman, I say nothing, approved by the Foreign Office. The Law Advisers
of
other
The honn being consulted, sport, aming things, that the Chinese ought to have been
allowed to one as a
not mean
this
as
A
"
pauper." Of
Cours
They do
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proposition of law, as it
the
that
is in a judge's discretions to grant, or refute, Application. I apprehend them to mean, the juge ought not to have allowed the defendant to interfere by showing canse against the Application. That is ce
certainly cowhary bo
English practice, which ordinarily is to grant Simply on the Plaintiffs Affidavit. But, then, in England, it is always open to this Stefendant
Free
to move to dispanserize the Plaintiff : so that the same point w. have been brought before the
Such an irregularity
Judge, only in another
way.
of practice, or rather variance from our practice, certainly does not deserve the name of an unjust "Decision"; and I find nothing whatever in the fach to warrant it. I therefore, cannot but think, that the Foreign Office may
have adocted
something of die John Paris's tone, without being
do well aware, as
be
are, of
between him and Judge Fulme.
I feel it the more
these remarks
how,
The stati
of things
necessary to make
because there is so much
of
Sie hatten.
wason to expect that the conduct Functionary in his Office will soon be canvassed
in various respects.
An
The Foreign Offer then saljoin Ordinance, of which the Law Officers approve,
which transfers the jurisdiction, in the first histance, in thise cases, from the judge at Hong Kong to the Consul, making the judge