Sundays and Holydays when not reckoned.
Time expiring on Sunday or Holyday.
Time in case of security tor
costa.
Facts or
occurring after suit.
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must be done or taken at the latest on the last day of such limited time according to such computation.
269. Where the limited time so appointed or allowed is less than six days, the following days shall not be reckoned in the computation of such time; namely, Sundays, Good Friday, Monday and Tuesday in Easter week, Christmas Day and the day next before and the day next after Christmas Day.
270. Where the time for the doing of any act or the taking of any proceeding expires on one of the days last mentioned, the act or proceeding shall be considered as done or taken in due time if done or taken on the next day afterwards that is not one of the last-mentioned days.
271. The day on which an order that a plaintiff do give secu- rity for costs is served, and the time thenceforward until and including the day on which such security is given, shall not be reckoned in the computation of the time allowed to a defendant or putting in his answer.
Supplemental Statement.
272. Facts or circumstances occurring after the institution of circumstances a suit, may, by leave of the Court, be introduced by way of amendment into the petition or answer (as the case may require) at any stage of the proceedings, and the Court may make such order as seems just respecting the proof of such facts or circumstances, or for affording all parties concerned leave and opportunity to meet the statements so introduced.
Change or
transmission
of interest or Jiability.
Power of Court.
Death of Party or other Change.
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273. Where, pending a suit, any change or transmission of interest or liability occurs in relation to any party to the suit, or any party to the suit dies or (being a woman) marries, or the suit is in any other way rendered defective or incapable of being carried on, any person interested may, on motion ex parte, obtain from the Court such order as is requisite for curing the defect, or enabling or compelling proper parties to carry on the proceedings.
But it shall be open to any person served with such an order within such time, not exceeding fourteen days, as the Court in the order directs, to apply to the Court by motion to discharge such order.
Adjournment.
274. Nothing in these Rules shall affect the power of the Court (for reasons to be recorded in the minutes of proceed- ings) to defer or adjourn the hearing or determination of any
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suit, matter, proceeding, or application, for such time and on such terms (if any) as justice requires.
Amendment.
275. Nothing in these Rules shall affect the power of the Power of Court (for reasons to be recorded in the minutes of proceed- Court. ings) to order or allow any amendment of any petition, answer, notice, or other document whatever, at any time on such terms (if any) as justice requires.
Power of Court as to Time.
276. Nothing in these Rules shall affect the power of the Enlargement Court (for reasons to be recorded in the minutes of proceed- or abridgment. ings) to enlarge or abridge the time appointed or allowed
for the doing of any act or the taking of any proceeding
on such terms (if any) as justice requires.
277. Where the Court is by these Rules or otherwise au- Further thorized to appoint the time for the doing of any act or the enlargement, taking of any proceeding, or to enlarge the time appointed or allowed for that purpose by these Rules or otherwise,-the Court may further enlarge any time so appointed or enlarged by it on such terms (if any) as seem just, provided that the application for further enlargement is made before the expiration of the time already allowed, and that such further enlargement appears to the Court (for reasons to be recorded in the minutes of proceedings) to be required for the purposes of justice, and not to be sought merely for delay,
Guardian for Purposes of Suit
278. Where on default made by a defendant in answering or In what cases. otherwise defending the suit after due service of the petition, it appears to the Court that he is an infant or a person of weak or unsound mind (not so found by inquisition), so that he is unable of himself to defend the suit, the Court may, on the application of the plaintiff or of its own motion, appoint some fit person to be guardian of the defendant for the purposes of the suit, by whom he may defend the same.
But no such order shall be made except on notice, after expira- Notice. tion of the time for answering, and four days at least before the day named in the notice for the hearing of the application, or for the Court proceeding (as the case may be), served on or left at the dwelling house of the person with whom or under whose care the defendant was at the time of service of the petition, and also, in the case of an infant not residing with or under the care of his father or guardian, served on or left at the dwelling house of such father or guardian, unless the Court thinks fit in any case to dispense with such last-mentioned service.
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