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Law and Equity.

Bankruptcy.

Joroner.

Admiralty.

Lunacy

Matrimonial Causes.

Probate and

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ORDER IN COU. CIL

to control and regulate the proceeding before and after the award in such manner and on such terms as may be just.

General Authorities of Courts.

51. The Supreme and every other Court shall be a Court of Law and Equity.

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Special Authorities of Courts

52. The Supreme an every other Court shall be a Court of Bank- ruptcy, and as such shall, as far as circumstances amit, have (as to a Pro incial Court, for and within its own listrict), with resp ct to British subjects and to their debtors and creditors, be ng either British subjects or foreigners submitting to the jurisdiction of the Court, all such juris- diction as for the time being belongs to the Court of Bankruptcy and the County Courts in E-gland, or to any other jud cial authority having for the ti ve being jurisdiction in Bankruptcy in England

53. Te Supr me and every other Court shall (as to a Provincial Cour, for and wi hin its own district) have and discharge all the powers, rights, and duties appertaining to the odice of Coroner in England,- summoning when necessary a ju y of not less than three persuus com- pris d in the jury list of the Court.

Any person failing to attend according to such summons shall be liable to the lik fine, to be levied in the lik» manner, as in this Order provided with reference to juries in civil and criminal proceedings.

54. The Supreme Court shall be a Vice-Admiralty Court, and as such shall, for and within China or Japan, and for vessels and persons coming to and within China or Japan, have all such jurisd.et.on as for the time being ordinarily belongs to Vice-Admiralty Courts in Her Majesty's po-s ssions abroad.

55. The Supreme Court shall, as far as oircumstances admit, have in itself exclusively, for and within China and Japan, with respect to British subjects, all such jurisdiction relative to the custody and management of the persons and estates of persons of unsound mind, as for the time being Felon 8 to the Lord Chancellor or other person or persons in England isted by virtue of Her Majesty's sign manual with the care and com- miment or the custody of the persons and es ates of persons found by inquisition in England, idiot, lunatic, er of unsound mind.

56. The Supreme Court shall be a Court for Matrimonial Causes, and as such shall, as far as circumstances admit, have in itself exclusively, fo and within China and Japan, with respect to British subjects, all suc

is iction, except the jurisdic ion relative to dissolution or nullity o jet tation of marriage, as for the time being belongs to the Court fo Divorce and Matrimonial Causes in England.

57. The Supreme Court shal! be a Court of Probate, and as such shall as far as circumstances admit, have for and within China and Japan, wit respect to the property of British suljects, having at the time of deat teir fixed places of alode in Cuina or Japan, all such jurisdiction as fc the time be ng belongs to Her Majesty's Court of Probate in England.

A Provincial Curt shall, however, also have power to grant probat or a ministration where there is no contention respecting the right t the grant, and i is proved on oath that the deceased had at the time his death his fixed place of abode within the jurisdiction of the Provinci Court.

Probate or administration granted by a Provincial Court shall ha effect over all the property of the deceased within China and Japa and shall effectually discharge, persons dealing with an executor or a ministrator thereunder, and that, notwithstanding any defect afterward appears in the grant.

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