}
Enclosure 2.
C.
c.o. 435
14229 RECO
ATTORNEY GENERALS OFFICÃEC 20 APR OF
14th March 1901.
Report on Ordinance of 1907.
I hate examined the accompanying Ordinance, entitled
An Ordinance to establish a Code of Procedure for the Regu-
lation of the Process, Practice, and Vode of Pleading, in the Civil Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the Colony
and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to
the Governor's Instructions.
This Code is intended to take the place of that of 1873. The latter was founded mainly upon the rules of the Supreme Court for China and Japan dated 1865. It also embodied parts of the Indian Code of Civil Procedure then in force, as well as sc Le few sections of the Indian Evidence Acts and of the English
Common Law Procedure Acts.
Since its enactment, however, the Indian Code of 1882 has been passed, as well as the 1833 rules of the English Supreme Court, and, in framing the new Code, full advantage has been taken of these more modern rules to amplify its provisions, although the