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been permitted to fall: There were bankruptcies of many years standing which might and ought to have been wound up years ago. There were intestacies in which the accounts had been prepared long before, and many cases were pending beyond the normal twelve months - but what made the greatest impression on my mind was the entire absence of any general rules of practice by which the business was to be conducted.
I suggested to the Chief Justice that rules should be laid down and, if necessary, I should be glad to help prepare them, with regard to the rules I suggested.
Having ascertained that by the Ordinance No.12 of 1873 the Chief Justice had certain powers with regard to the rules, I had brought with me from England the latest authorities on the subject, but finding that the Chief Justice was utterly opposed to being framed by any general rules, I altered my course nearly completely and proceeded as I could, in accordance with what the general consensus of legal opinion in England has pronounced to be the most approved system.
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