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55.
Order of Dismissal of Charge.
In Her Britannic Majesty's Court at [Canton]
[Thursday] the
A.B. of
day of [labourer] was ou
18
day of
18 charged before this Court for that [&c. as in summons or warrant].
And now both the said parties appear before this Court in order that it may hear and determine the said charge [or the said A.B. appears before this Court, but the said C.D., although duly called, does not appear.]
Whereupon, the matter of the said charge being by this Court duly considered, it manifestly appears to this Court that the said charge is not proved, and * this Court dismisses the same,
of
And adjudges that the said C.D. do pay to the said A.B, the sum for his costs in this behalf, and if the same be not paid forthwith [or on or before
this Court orders that the same be levied by distress and sale of the goods of the said C.D., and in default of sufficient distress, this Court adjudges the said C.D. to be imprisoned in [
[
prison at [and there kept to hard labour] unless the same sum and all costs and charges of the said distress [and of the commitment and conveying to the said prison of the said C.D.] be sooner paid.
(Seal.)
[Where the person making the charge does not appear at the hearing the words between asterisks * * may be omitted.]
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57.
Warrant of Distress for Costs to be paid by the Person making the Charge, on an Order for Dismissal of the Charge.
In Her Britannic Majesty's Court at [Canton]
[Thursday] the
To X., Police Officer of this Court.
A.B., of
day of
18
,[labourer,] was on the
+
day of
18 charged before this Court for that [Se. as in summons or warrant].
And afterwards, namely, on the
day of 18 >
both parties appeared before this Court in order that it should hear and determine the said charge for the said A.B. appeared before this Court, but the said CD., although duly called did not appear], and thereupon the matter of the said charge being duly considered by this Court*, and it manifestly appearing to this Court that the said charge was not proved, this Court did dismiss the same, and adjudged that the said C.D. should pay to the said A.B. the sum of
for his costs in that behalf, and that if the said sum should not be paid forthwith [or on or before
then the same should be levied by distress and sale of the goods of the said C.D.
And the said C.D., although required to pay the same according to the said order has not paid the same.
Therefore you are hereby commanded-
[Proceed as in the commanding part of Form 52, only substi- tuting the name of C.D., the prosecutor, for the name of A.B., the accused, and for the word "sums" at the mark † read “sum."]
(Seal.)
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58.
Warrant of Commitment for Want of Distress in the last Case.
In Her Britannic Majesty's Court at [Canton]
[Thursday] the
day of
18
To X.Y, Police Officer of this Court, and to the keeper of
] prison at [
Proceed as in last form down to the commencement of the com- manding part, and then thus :—]
And on the
day of
18
this Court issued a warrant to you, the above-named X. X., [proceed as in Form 54., only substituting the name of C.D., the prosecutor, for the name of A.B., the accused.]
(Seal,)
Certificate of Dismissal of Charge to be given to Accused.
In Her Britannic Majesty's Court at [Canton]
[Thursday] the
day of
This is to certify that a charge made on the [ by C.D., of
[
18
A.B., of
day of [labourer, against [labourer], for that [c. summons or warrant] is now considered by this Court, and is by this Court dismissed [with costs].
(Seal.)
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