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Pauper dis paupered for giving fee;

or for insufficient poverty.

Days

Fundays and holydays, when not reckoned.

Time expiring on Sunday or bolyday.

Time in case of security.

for costs.

Facts or cir. cumstances

suit.

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RULES OF SUPREME COURT

266. If a pauper gives or agrees to give any fee, profit, recompense, or reward for the despatch of his business in Court, he shall be deemed guilty of a contempt of Court, and he shall also be forthwith dispaupered, and shall not be afterwards admitted again in that suit to sue or defend in formi pauperis.

267. A person admitted to sue or defend in formá pauperis may be dispaupered, by order of the Court, on its appearing that he was not when admitted, or no longer is of sufficient poverty, or that he is abusing his privilege by vexatious proceedings.

Computation of Time.

268. Where by these Rules, or any special order or the course of the Court, any limited time from or after any date or event is appointed or allowed for the doing of any act or the taking of any proceeding, and such time is not limited by hous, the computation of such limited time does not include the day of such date or of the happening of such event but commences at the beginning of the next following day, and the act or proceeding must be done or taken at the latest on the last day of such limited time according to such computation.

269. Where the limited time so appointed or allowed is less than six days, the following days shall not be reckoned in the computation of such time: namely, Sundays, Good Friday, Monday and Tuesday in Easter week, Christmas Day, and the day before and the day next after Christmas Day.

270. Where the time for the doing of any act or the taking of any proceeding expires on one of the days last-mentioned, the act or proceeding shall be considered as done or taken in due time if done or taken on the next day afterwards, that is, not one of the last-mentioned days.

271. The day on which an order that a plaintiff do give security for costs is served, and the time thenceforward until and including the day on which such security is given, shall not be reckoned in the computation of the time allowed to a defendant for putting in his answer. Supplemental Statement.

272. Facts or circumstances occurring after the institution of a suit, occurring after may, by leave of the Court, be introduced by way of amendment into the petition or answer (as the case may require) at any stage of the proceedings, and the Court may make such order as seems just respecting the proof of such facts or circumstances or for affording all parties concerned leave and opportunity to meet the statements so introduced.

Change or transmission

of interest or

Bability.

Fower of Court,

Power of Court.

Death of Party or other Change.

273. Where, pending a suit, any change or transmission of interest or liability occurs in relation to any party to suit, or any party to the suit dies or (being a woman) marries, or the suit is in any other way rendered defective or incapable of being carried on, any person interested may, on motion ex parte, obtain from the Court such order as is requisite for curing the defect, or enabling or compelling proper parties to carry on the proceedings.

But it shall be open to any person served with such an order within such time, not exceeding fourteen days, as the Court in the order directs, to apply to the Court by motion to discharge such order.

Adjournment.

274. Nothing in these Rules shall affect the power of the Court (for reasons to be recorded in the minutes of proceedings) to defer or adjourn the hearing or determination of any suit, matter, proceeding, or applica- tion, for such time and on such terms (if any) as justice requires.

Amendment.

275. Nothing in these Rules shall affect the power of the Court (for reasons to be recorded in the minutes of proceedings) to order or allow any