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Attorney or Ecclesiastical
Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court pronounced in its favour.
Now in the first place the Meeting does not seem to have been aware, that in Equity and Admiralty proceedings at least the Crown does not consider it beneath its dignity to recover and pocket costs, and that this Ordinance merely extends to the Common-law side a privilege possessed elsewhere.
I myself voted for this clause from a strong conviction of the injustice of barring the Crown from the recovery of Costs, a conviction forced on me by personal experience.
When Colonial Treasurer in the earlier days of the Colony I found the greatest difficulty in procuring from the Chinese payment of their Crown rents.
At last I summoned defaulters before the Supreme Court sitting in summary Jurisdiction and got judgment in my favor. I applied for
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