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672 ORDINANCES Nos . 11 AND 12 OF 1864 .
Jury. Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes.
SCHEDULE ( B.)
SUMMONS TO JURORS.
Mr. A.B.
You are hereby summoned to appear as a juror at the Supreme Court to be holden at
in this Colony on the day of next at the hour of o'clock in the
forenoon, and there to attend from day to day until you shall be discharged from the Court.
(Signed) C.D..
[" Registrar" as
-amended * Sheriff.
by
Ordinance No. 24 of
1882 ] N.B.- The penalty for disobedience hereto is any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars.
[ All sections remaining unrepealed repealed by Ordinance No. 18 of 1887 except
sections 27 and 28 which were subsequently repealed as above noted.]
No. 12 of 1864.
Title. An Ordinance to facilitate the Remedies on Bills of Exchange and Prom
issory Notes by the Prevention of frivolous or fictitious Defences
to Actions thereon.
[ 13th September, 1864. ]
Preamble. HEREAS it is expedient that the several matters embraced by Ordinance No.
[See Ord. No. 13
of 1873 s. 81.] W 5 of 1856 should be provided for by separate and distinct Ordinances : Be it
enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legisla
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tive Council thereof, as follows :
Part of sec. 2 of 1. So much of section 2 of Ordinance No. 5 of 1856, as relates to the Imperial
Ordinance No.
5 of 1856, re Enactment entitled " The Summary Procedure on Bills of Exchange Act, 1855, " shall
pealed.
be repealed, except as to the proceedings in any action upon a bill of exchange or
promissory note commenced before the passing of this Ordinance.
All actions upon 2. All actions upon bills of exchange or promissory notes commenced within
bills of exchange,
&c. may be by six months after the same shall have become due and payable may be by writ of
writ of summons
as form in
schedule (A) .• summons in the special form contained in schedule (A) to this Ordinance annexed and
indorsed as therein mentioned , and it shall be lawful for the plaintiff, on filing an
affidavit of personal service of such writ within the jurisdiction of the Court, or an
Plaintiff on filing order for leave to proceed and a copy of the writ of summons and the indorsements
affidavit of per
sonal service thereon, in case the defendant shall not have obtained leave to appear and have
may at once
sign final judg
ment as form in appeared to such writ according to the exigency thereof at once to sign final judgment
schedule (B).
in the form contained in schedule (B) to this Ordinance annexed, for any sum not
exceeding the sum indorsed on the writ, together with interest, at the rate specified
(if any) to the date of the judgment, and a sum for costs to be fixed by the Registrar
subject to the approval of the Chief Justice, unless the plaintiff claim more than such
fixed sum, in which case the costs shall be taxed in the ordinary way, and the plaintiff
may upon such judgment issue execution forthwith.