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the Solicitors of the Supreme Court, and of the Attorney-
-General and Crown Solicitor, but that both the Chief
Justice and the Puisne Judge are of opinion that it would
not be expedient to alter the law as it at present exists.
3.
By Section 53 of Ordinance No. 13
of 1873 (the old Code of Civil Procedure) the trial of a
suit might, according to circumstances, take place in
either of the following modes:-
(a). By a Judge with or without a Jury.
(b). By the Full Court with or without a Jury.
By Sub-section 2 of the same
Section the summons for setting down a cause for hearing
had to specify the mode of trial desired by the party
making the application.
By Sub-section 3 of the same
Section the Court on the hearing of the summons could make
such Order as to the mode of trial as it thought fit,
provided that if either party should desire a trial by
Jury before one of the two Judges, he should be entitled
thereto as of right.
4.
This Ordinance was repealed by
Ordinance No. 3 of 1901 (the present Code of Civil
Procedure).
By