CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE-HONGKONG.
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Shares in
10.—Where the property sold shall consist of debts not being nego- of Debts and tiable instruments, or of shares in any public company or corporation, Publie Com- the Court shall, on the application of the purchaser, make an order panies.
pro- hibiting the creditor from receiving the debts and the debtor from making payment thereof to any person or persons except the purchaser, or pro- hibiting the person in whose name the shares may be standing, from making any transfer of the shares to any person except the purchaser, or receiving payment of any dividends thereon, and the manager, secretary, or other proper officer of the company or corporation from permitting any such transfer or making any such payment to any person except the purchaser.
Becurities,
11.-Where the property sold shall consist of negotiable securities of of negotiable which actual seizure has been made, the same shall be delivered to the purchaser thereof.
Securities and
12. If the indorsement, transfer, or conveyance of the party in whose Transfer of name any negotiable security or any share in a public company or corpora- shares. tion is standing, or in whom any mortgage or equity of redemption shall be vested, shall be required to transfer the same, the Registrar may indorse the security or the certificate of the share, or may execute such other document as may be necessary for transferring the same. The indorse- ment or execution shall be in the following form, or to the like effect :-- "A. B. by C. D., Registrar of the Supreme Court of Hongkong; in a suit by E. F. versus A. B." Until the transfer of such security or share, the Court may, by order, appoint some person to receive any interest or divid- end due thereon, and to sign receipts for the same; and any indorsement made or document executed, or receipts signed as aforesaid, shall be as valid and effectual for all purposeses, as if the same had been made or executed or signed by the party himself.
13. If the purchaser of any immoveable property sold in execu- Obstructing tion of a decree shall, notwithstanding the order of the Court, be resisted Purchaser in
obtaining or obstructed in obtaining possession of the property, the provisions con- Possession, tained in Section LXXV., relating to resistance or obstruction to a party in whose favour a suit has been decreed in obtaining possession of the property adjudged to him, shall be applicable in the case of such resistance or obstruction.
Claimants
14.-If it shall appear that the resistance or obstruction to the delivery Obstruction by of possession was occasioned by any person other than the defendant other than claiming a right to the possession of the property sold as proprietor, Defendant. mortgagee, lessee, or under any other title, or if in the delivery of posses- sion to the purchaser any such person claiming as aforesaid shall be dis- possessed, the Court, on the complaint of the purchaser, or of such person claiming as aforesaid, if made within one month from the date of such resistance or obstruction, or of such dispossession, as the case may be, shall enquire into the matter of the complaint, and make such order as may be proper in the circumstances of the case. The party against whom it is
given shall be at liberty to bring a suit to establish his right at any time within one year from the date thereof.
Of the Execution of Decrees by Imprisonment.
Allowance to
LXXIX.-When a defendant is committed to prison in execution of Subsistence a decree, the Court shall fix whatever monthly allowance it shall think Prisoner for sufficient for his subsistence, not exceeding twenty-five cents per day, which Debt. shall be paid by the party at whose instance the decree may have been executed, to the superintendent of the gaol, by monthly payments in advance, before the first day of each month, the first payment to be made for such portion of the current month as may remain unexpired before the defendant is committed to prison,