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FOREIGN JURISDICTION ACT, 1890.

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curred after such tender or payment, and the defendant shall be entitled to costs, to be taxed as between solicitor and client, as from the time of such tender or payment; but this provision shall not affect costs on any injunction in the action, suit, or proceeding.

tain Eastern seas.

14.-It shall be lawful for Her Majesty the Queen in Council to Jurisdiction make any law that may seem meet for the government of Her Majesty's over ships in car- subjects being in any vessel at a distance of not more than one hundred miles from the coast of China or of Japan, as fully and effectually as any such law might be made by Her Majesty in Council for the Government of Her Majesty's subjects being in China or in Japan.

15.-Where any Order in Council made in pursuance of this Act Provision as to extends to persons enjoying Her Majesty's protection, that expression princes. shall include all subjects of the several princes and states in India.

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In this Act,--

The expression "foreign country" means any country or place out Definitions,

of Her Majesty's dominions:

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The expression "British court in a foreign country means any British court having jurisdiction out of Her Majesty's dominions in pursuance of an Order in Council whether made under any Act or otherwise:

The expression "jurisdiction" includes power.

17.-The Acts mentioned in the Second Schedule to this Act may Powery Acts in

be revoked or varied by Her Majesty by Order in Council.

to repeal vary Second Schedule.

18.-The Acts mentioned in the Third Schedule to this Act are Repeal. hereby repealed to the extent in the third column of that schedule mentioned: Provided that,-

(1) Any Order in Council, commission, or instructions made or issued in pursuance of any enactment repealed by this Act, shall, if in force at the passing of this Act, continue in force, until altered or revoked by Her Majesty as if made in pursuance of this Act; and shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to have been made or issued under and in pursuance of this Act; and

(2) Any enactment, Order in Council, or document referring to any enactment repealed by this Act shall be construed to refer to the corresponding tenacment of this Act.

19. (1.) This Act may be cited as the Foreign Jurisdiction Act, Short title. 1890.

(2.) The Acts whereof the short titles are given in the First Schedule to this Act may be cited by the respective short titles given in that schedule.