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SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG. REGULA GENERALIS.

EASTER TERM.

ANNO VIGESIMO VICTORIE REGINE, 5TH MARCH, 1857.

WRITS OF FOREIGN ATTACHMENT.

WHEREAS cases may occur wherein parties being in possession of or holding goods and property as Garnishes within

the meaning of Ordinance No. 2 of 1855, may be persons of small and irresponsible means, and such property may be in danger of being carried away beyond the Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of this Colony, or sold, or otherwise disposed of to the injury of Plaintiffs proceeding under the said Ordinance:

Be it therefore ordered, That in all cases where there shall be just and reasonable grounds to believe that any Property, which may have been attached by Writ of Foreign Attachment, is in danger of being removed from and out of the Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, or of being sold or otherwise disposed of, and the Garnishee or Garnishees shall be an irresponsible Person or Persons, or the mere Servant or Servants of the Owner or Owners of the property; it shall be lawful for the Sheriff to seize and detain such Property until the claim of the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs, if established, be satisfied, or the Defendant or Defendants therein interested shall have duly given Security and entered Appearance, or delivered or filed Plea to the Action commenced against him or them in terms of Section Eleven of the aforesaid Ordinance.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,

this 5th Day of March, 1857.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

By the Court,

W. H. ALEXANDER, Registrar.