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SUMMARY JURISDICTION COURT-HONGKONG.

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N.B.--Bring this note when you come to the court or to the office for any purpose connected with this cause. On the day of hearing bring all books and papers, &c., necessary to prove your case. If you are not in court when your cause is called on it will be struck out. If you have instructed an attorney to appear on your behalf, and neither your attorney nor yourself be present in court, the result will be the same.

If the debt or damage claimed exceeds one hundred dollars you may, if the judge consent, appear by attorney, and in the event of substantiating your claim, the judge may certify that the case was such as to render it fit and advisable that you should have professional assistance, but whatever be the fee which

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pay your attorney, will in no case be entitled to be reinbursed except as hereunder written. Attorney's Fee in Proceedings under Section XII. of Ordinance No. 7, of 1862. Hearing and Attendance, $10.

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Attorney's Fee except those under Section XII. Upon every Sum of $100 in dispute $3. Attendance at Hearing, $5.

The percentage shall be calculated upon the sum recovered or successfully resisted. If there should be any difference between yourself and the opposite party or between yourself and your attorney with respect to the amount of costs payable by, or to be paid to you, you may apply to the clerk of the court, who will tax the same.

SCHEDULE 3.

Note to be inserted at the foot of the Summons.

If you pay the debt and costs as stated above within twenty-four hours after the service of this summons you will avoid further costs; but you may pay the same at any time before the cause is called on for trial, subject to the payment of any further costs which your delay may have caused the plaintiff to incur.

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If you admit a part only of the claim you may by paying into the clerk's hands the amount so admitted, together with costs proportionate to the amount you pay within twenty-four hours after the service of the summons, you avoid further costs, unless the plaintiff, at the hearing, shall prove a claim against you exceeding the sum so paid.

If you intend to rely on a set-off, illegality, fraud, want of consideration, cover- ture, a statute or ordinance of limitation, or a discharge under a bankrupt or insolvent act or ordinance, you must give notice of such special defence to the clerk of the court and to the plaintiff in writing, and such notice must contain the particulars required by the rules of the court. If your defence be a set-off you must, with each notice. thereof, deliver a statement of the particulars. If your defence be a tender, you must pay into court there, or at the hearing, the amount tendered.

Bring this summons when you come to the court or to the office for any purpose connected with the cause. On the day of hearing bring all books and papers, &c., necessary to prove your case. If you are not in court when the cause is called on, the plaintiff may proceed in your absence. If you have instructed an attorney to appear on your behalf, and neither your attorney nor yourself be present in court the result will be the same.

If the debt or damage claimed exceeds one hundred dollars you may, if the judge consent, appear by attorney, and in the event of your successfully resisting the plaintiff's claim, the judge may certify that the case was such as to render it fit and advisable that you should have professional assistance, but whatever be the fee which you shall pay your attorney, you will in no case be entitled to be reinbursed except as here- under written.

Attorney's Fee in Proceedings under Section XII. of Ordinance No. 7, of 1862.

Hearing and Attendance, $10.

Attorney's Fee except those under Section XII. Upon every Sum of $100 in dispute $3. Attendance at Hearing, $5.

The percentage shall be calculated upon the sum recovered or successfully resisted. If there should be any difference between yourself and the opposite party, or be-

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