Consuls resident
British
territory are for their own persons under the jurisdiction of the local Courts existing there, and that therefore Herr von Möllendorf was wrong in refusing to receive the writ which had been issued against him personally by the Hongkong Court. The conduct of this official was governed by considerations
to which a colour of excuse is lent by the fact that
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the judicial process in question related apparently to a matter which did not affect Herr Möllendorf personally, but related to a case with which he was connected in his official capacity as a consular officer. Anyhow it would have been more correct if he had accepted the summons to appear before the Court from the first, in order to lay before the judge, as he had to do later on, the weighty grounds
which