necessary for the determination in the existing suit of the real question in controversy between the parties shall be made if duly applied for.

144. The Court may at the hearing order or allow, on such terms as seem just, the striking out or amendment of any pleading that appears so framed as to prejudice, embarrass, or delay the fair trial of the real questions in controversy between the parties.

Judgments.

145. Decisions and judgments shall be delivered or read in open Court in presence of the parties or their counsel.

Publicity.

146. If the judgment of the Court is reserved at the hearing, parties to the suit shall be summoned to hear judgment, unless the Court at the hearing states the day on which judgment will be delivered, in which case no summons to hear judgment shall be issued.

147. All parties shall be deemed to have notice of any decision or judgment, if the same is pronounced at the hearing of the application or suit.

All parties duly served with notice to attend and hear judgment shall be deemed to have notice of the judgment when pronounced.

148. A minute of every judgment, whether final or interlocutory, shall be made, on which the decree or order may be drawn up on the application of any of the parties.

Special Case.

149. Any verdict may be taken, subject to a special case to be stated for the opinion of the Court.

Review of Decision, Re-hearing, New Trial.

150. The Court may, in any case, on such terms as seem just, review any decision or order a re-hearing or new trial, with a stay of proceedings.

151. Any application for a review of decision or for a re-hearing or new trial must be made on notice of motion filed not later than fourteen days after such decision or hearing or verdict.

Such notice shall not of itself operate as a stay of proceedings; but any money in Court in the suit shall be retained to abide the result of the motion or the further order of the Court. After the expiration of such fourteen days an application for such review, re-hearing or new trial shall not be admitted, except by special leave of the Court, on such terms as seem just.

152. On an order for re-hearing or new trial, either party may demand a jury for the second trial, though the first was not with a jury.

153. The Court may, if it thinks fit, make it a condition of granting a re-hearing or new trial that the trial shall be with a jury.

Decrees and Orders.

154. A decree or order shall bear date of the day on which the decision or judgment on which the decree or order is founded is pronounced.

155. Decrees and orders shall be drawn up in form only on the application of some party to the suit, and shall then be passed, certified by the seal of the Court, and entered, and shall then form part of the record.

No decree or order shall be enforced or appealed from, nor shall any copy thereof be granted, until it has been so drawn up, passed and entered.

156. Any party to the suit is entitled to obtain a copy of a decree or order, when drawn up, passed and entered, such copy to be certified under the seal of the Court.

157. Where an order is made ex parte, a certified copy of the affidavit or deposition on which the order is granted must be served on the party affected by the order together with the order.

158. Where in any suit or matter a decree or order directs any person to pay money or do any other act, the same or some subsequent decree or order shall state the precise time within which the payment or other act is to be made or done, reckoned from the date or from the service of the decree or order in which the time is stated, or from some other point of time, as seems fit.

159. A decree or order may direct the payment to be made, or act to be done, immediately after service of the decree or order, if, under special circumstances, the Court thinks fit so to direct.

160. Where the decree or order is one directing payment of money, there shall be endorsed on the copy of it served on the person required to obey it, a memorandum in the words, or to the effect following:-

"If you, the within-named A.B., neglect to obey this decree or order by the time therein limited, you will be liable to have a writ of execution issued against your goods, under which they may be seized and sold, and will also

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