ORDINANCE No. 6 OF 1845 . 129
Supreme Court .
SCHEDULE TO WHICH THIS ORDINANCE REFERS.
No. 1 .
Writ of Capias ad Respondendum.
VICTORIA, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen , Writ of capias ad
respondendum.
Sec. 24.
Defender of the Faith, to the Sheriff of the Colony of Hongkong, or his lawful Deputy ,
:
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Greeting
We command you that you take C. D. of Street in Victoria, merchant, ( or as the
case may be) if he be found in this Colony, and him safely keep, until he shall have given you bail, or
made deposit with you according to law, or until the said C. D. shall by other lawful means be
discharged from your custody, so that he appear before our Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of our
said Colony at Victoria within eight days after the execution hereof on him, inclusive of the day of
such execution, then and there to answer A. B. wherefore he hath not [ " paid to the said A. B. the sum
of dollars of good and lawful money current in the said Colony which he owes to, and
unjustly detains from him," or " hath not delivered to the said A. B. a certain boat, together with its
oars, furniture, &c. " or " other movable thing which the said C. D. unlawfully detains from the said
A. B.," or " hath not satisfied the said A. B. his damages which the said A. B. hath sustained in respect
of," &c. (stating any wrong or injury committed by the defendant, as the case may be) as it is said ; ]
and in default of such appearance, after having given a bail-bond, the plaintiff to be at liberty to
proceed against the sheriff or on the bail-bond ; and we do further command you, that on execution
hereof, you do deliver a copy hereof to the said defendant ; and we do further command you, that
immediately after the execution hereof, you do return this writ to our said Supreme Court of
Hongkong, together with the manner in which you shall have executed the same, and the day of the
execution thereof.
Witness The Honorable John Walter Hulme,
Our Chief Justice of our said Colony at Victoria,
the day of
in the Year of our Reign.
G. H. No.
Street, Victoria,
Plaintiff's Attorney
(or ifthe plaintiff sue in person)
A. B. of
Plaintiff.
No. 2.
Form of Bail-bond.
KNOW all men by these presents, that we, C. D. of Bail-bond to the
and L. M. of sheriff. Sec. 24.
are held and firmly bound to
sheriff of the Colony of Hongkong in the penal sum of dollars
(double the sum or value of the thing mentioned in the writ) of good and lawful money current in the
said Colony, to be paid to the said sheriff, or his certain attorney, executors, administrators, or assigns ;
for which payment to be well and faithfully made we bind ourselves , and each of us for himself, in the
whole, our and every of our heirs, executors, and administrators, firmly by these presents. In witness
whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this
day of in the Year of our Lord
The condition of this obligation is such, that if the above bounden C. D. do appear in person, or by his Condition.
attorney, before the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of our Lady the Queen of the Colony of