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2. The application for the summons and the summons itself shall distinctly set forth the nature of the particular application.
3. The Registrar may thereupon issue a summons ordering the person to whom it
is directed to appear at the time and place specified therein.
4. On the return-day of the summons, if the person to whom the summuons is directed appears, or in his absence on proof of service, the Court may, on the appli- cation of the person obtaining the summons, consider and deal with the application in a summary way.
5. The Court shall take a note of the material evidence, if taken vicâ voce.
6. The Court may adjourn hearing of any summons when necessary.
Evidence in Interlocutory Proceedings.
XLVI. The evidence at the bearing of any interlocutory or other application in a suit S. R. 243. or matter, shall as a general rule be by affidavit, but the Court may, if it thinks it just and expedient, for reasons to be recorded in the minutes of proceedings, summon any person to attend to produce documents before it, or to be examined, or to be cross- examined rivâ voce by or before it, in like mauner as at the hearing of a suit.
2. Such notice as the Court in cach case, according to the circumstances, considers reasonable, shall be given to the person summoned, and to such persons (parties to the suit or proceeding or otherwise interested) as the Court considers entitled to inspect the documents to be produced, or to examine, cross-examine, or re-examine the person summoned, or to be present at his examination, or cross-examination, as the case may be.
3. The evidence of a witness on any such examination, cross-examination, or re- examination shall be taken in like manner as nearly as may be, as at the hearing of a suit.
Stry of Proceedings.
XLVII. Every summons, notice of motion, or order, whether made in Court or in R. J. C, 15. chambers, shall operate as a stay of proceedings from the time of the service thereof on the opposite party, subject to any direction of the Court to the contrary.
2. Every order made in chambers shall have the same force and effect as an order of Court, and the Court sitting at chambers or at nisi prius shall have the same power to enforce, vary, or deal with any such order, by attachment or otherwise, as if sitting in Court.
PART II.
FROM THE HEARING OF A SUIT TO JUDGMENT OR DECREE.
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