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Directories & Chronicles 香港指南 All

FEES IN H.B.M. SUPREME AND OTHER COURTS IN CHINA, JAPAN, AND COREA.

The following Table of Fees to be taken by Her Majesty's Supreme Court and other Courts in China, Japan, and Corea in Civil and Criminal Proceedings, shall be substituted, as regards all Proceedings commenced after the date of the publication of this Rule, for the Table of Fees annexed to the Rules of Her Britannic Majesty's Supreme Court for China and Japan dated 4th May, 1865, and the Fees specified in the Table hereby substituted shall be levied accordingly.

R. A. MOWAT,

Acting Chief Justice.

1st October, 1888.

I-CIVIL MATTERS.

Service.

For service of summons, petition, motion-paper, notice, warrant, decree, order, or other document on a party, witness, juror, assessor, or other person, under any branch whatever of the civil jurisdiction-

Within one mile (English) of Court Beyond, for every mile or part of a mile

For service effected through another Court

+

$ cts. 1 10

...

*

***

+++

0 50

Fee No. 1 in addition to such fee as the other Court charges for service.

+

...

Decision of Questions without formal Suit. 'On summons for statement of issue or for special case On order for issue or for special case 'On hearing

...

*On summons *On decree

...

7 00

...

5 00

...one and a half per cent. on amount at issue Summary Procedure on Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes.

***

+

...

...

"Order for reference to arbitration in pending suit On application to make submission to arbitration a Rule of Court On order

On summons On order

Summary Procedure for Administration of Property of Deceased Persons.

+

***

...

...

...

5 00

...

***

...one and a half per cent. on amount

Arbitration,

2 00

5 00

***

2 00

10 00

*

10 00

Summary Orders before Suit.

'On application for order...

+++

...

'On recognizance

On order

5 00

6

...

...

...

2

***

***

***

888

00

50

...

Every bankruptcy petition

Every bond with sureties

Every subpoena...

Every affidavit for proof of debt

Every petition under Section 125 of the Act

Bankruptcy. (Act 1883.)

Every declaration by a debtor of inability to pay his debts

Every bankruptcy notice

2

00

...

2 00

***

...

++

***

...

3) 07

...

++

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

5 00

Every affidavit filed (other than proof of debt)

1 00

***

1 00

G

0 to

**

30

00

...

For every creditor to be notified

Every receiving order under Section 103 of the Act Every application for an order of discharge

30 00

12 00

...

0 60

...

-

·

Every application to the Court under Sections 18 and 23 to approve a composition, one per cent. on the gross amount of the composition

Every application to a Court, except by Official Receiver Every application under Section 162 to the Supreme Court, or Court for Japan for

payment of money out of the Bankruptcy Estates (unclaimed) account

2 00

2 00

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