514 ORDINANCE No. 7 OF 1862 .
Court of Summary Jurisdiction.
Form of Dismissal.
A. B.- Plaintiff.
C. D.- Defendant.
Hongkong
to wit. S It appearing to this Court that the plaintiff entered his plaint and caused the above defendant
to be summoned to attend this Court for (here state the cause of action or complaint ; ) and the said
plaintiff having failed to prove his said plaint, it is hereby ordered and decreed by the said Court, that
the plaint of the said A. B. be, and the same hereby dismissed : And that the said defendant do recover
against the said plaintiff the sum of for costs : And the said A. B. the plaintiff is hereby
ordered and directed forthwith, on demand, to pay the said C. D. the defendant the said sum of
so awarded for his costs herein as aforesaid, and on failure thereof, process will issue to take in execution
the goods, chattels, and effects of the said A. B. , or his body, to satisfy the said costs.
Dated the day of
in the year of our Lord, 186
Defendant's costs ,........
Judge.
Writ or Precept to Bailiff.
COURT OF SUMMARY JURISDICTION
Between A. B.- Plaintiff.
and C. D.- Defendant.
To Mr. bailiff, and his assistants.
Hongkong You
are hereby commanded to levy of the goods, chattels, and effects, lands, tenements, and
hereditaments , of of in the Colony of Hongkong, the
sum of which of lately recovered against
for damages and costs ; and if you shall not find any goods,
chattels, or effects, or any lands, tenements, or hereditaments belonging to the said defendant whereofto
levy, then you are hereby commanded to take and arrest the body of the said defendant, and him safely
to lodge in one of Her Majesty's gaols, there to remain for the period of months unless he shall
sooner pay the damages and costs due to satisfy the said plaintiff his
damages and costs, as aforesaid, and have you there this writ.
Witness E. F., Judge of the said Court at Victoria,
the day of
in the year of our reign.
[L. S. ]
Judgment.....
Costs ........?
Alias, or Pluries.
You are hereby commanded, as before you were commanded, (or, as " oftentimes " before you were
commanded, and then follow the aboveform).