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shall consist of (1) the petition and such portion of the pleadings, orders, proceedings, and evidence as relate to the particular decision appealed from, with (2) the appeal motion-paper and any argument or arguments filed.

The record shall be made up as on appeal from a decree.

178. The Court shall not cause notice to be given to the parties Notice to parties of the day when the appeal motion will be disposed of, unless under special circumstances it thinks fit to do so.

But when any party to the appeal motion notifies to the Supreme Court his desire to attend in person, or by counsel or attorney, when the motion is being disposed of, he shall be at liberty to do so, and the Court shall hear him, or his counsel or attorney, before disposing of the motion.

VIII.-SUMMARY ORDERS BEFORE SUIT.

179. Where the extreme urgency or other peculiar circumstances In what cases, of the case appear to the Court so to require, the Court, may on evidence on oath, without a petition having been previously presented, make ex parte an order of injunction, or an order to sequester money or goods, or to stop a passport,-or the clearance of a ship,-or to hold to bail.

180. Before making such an order the Court shall require the Recognizance. person applying for it to enter into a recognizance (with or without a surety or sureties as the Court thinks fit), signed by the party applying (and his surety or sureties if any), as a security for his being answerable in damages to the person against whom the order is sought, or to give such other security for that purpose by deposit or otherwise as the Court thinks fit.

181. Any such order shall not remain in force more than 24 Duration of order. hours, and shall at the end of that time wholly cease to be in force unless within that time a suit is regularly instituted by the person obtaining the order.

Any such order shall be dealt with in the suit as seems just. 182. An order to hold to bail shall state the amount (including costs) for which bail is required.

It shall be executed forthwith.

The person arrested under it shall be entitled to be discharged from custody under it on bringing into Court the amount stated in the order, to abide the event of any suit instituted, or on entering into a recognizance, (with or without a surety or sureties as the Court thinks fit), signed by him (and his surety or sureties if any), as a security that he will abide by and satisfy any decree or order of the Court in any suit instituted, or on giving such other security for that purpose by deposit or otherwise as the Court thinks fit.

The person arrested shall be liable to be detained in custody under the order for not more than seven days, if not sooner discharged; but the Court may, from time to time, on evidence on oath, renew the order, so, however, that no person be kept in custody under any such order, and renewed order or orders, for a longer time in the whole than thirty days.

IX. PROBATE AND ADMINISTRATION.

Deposit of Will in Lifetime.

Arrest and other pro- ceedings under order to hold to bail.

will.

183. Any British subject may in his lifetime deposit for safe Tentator may deposit custody in the Supreme or other Court his own Will, sealed up under his own seal and the seal of the Court.

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