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Negotiable Instruments.

Service of prohibitory Orders.

Private Aliens- tion after At-

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CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE-HONGKONG

7.-Where the property shall consist of a negotiable instrument, the attachment shall be made by actual seizure, and the bailiff or other officer shall bring the same into Court, and such instrument shall be held subject to the further orders of the Court.

8. In the case of goods, chattels, or other moveable property not in the possession of the defendant, an office copy of the order shall be delivered to the person in possession of the property. In the case of lands, houses, or other immoveable property, or any interest therein, an office copy of the order shall be registered in the Land Office under Ordinance No 3 of 1844. In the case of debts, office copies of the order shall be lelivered to or served upon each individual debtor. And in case of shares in the capital or joint stock of any public company or corporation, an office copy of the order shall be delivered to or served upon the manager, secretary, or other proper officer of the company or corporation.

9. After any attachment shall have been made by actual seizure, or tachment void. by written order as aforesaid, and in the case of an attachment by written order after it shall have been duly intimated and made known in manner aforesaid, any alienation without leave of the Court of the property attached, whether by sale, gift, or otherwise, and any payment of the debt or debts, or dividends, or shares to the defendant during the continuance of the attachment, shall be null and void.

Payment into Court by Debtor.

Court may order Money or Proceeds

of Property

attached, or any

10. In every case in which a debtor shall be prohibited from making payment of his debt to the creditor, he may pay the amount into Court, and such payment shall have the same effect as payment to the party entitled to receive the debt.

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11. In all cases of attachment under this chapter, it shall be com- petent to the Court, at any time during the attachment, to direct that any part of the property so attached as shall consist of money or bank-notes, Part thereof, to or a sufficient part thereof, shall be paid over to the party applying for execution of the decree, or that any part of the property so attached as may not consist of money or bank-notes, so far as may be necessary for the satisfaction of the decree, shall be sold, and that the money which may be realized by such sale, or a sufficient part thereof, shall be paid to such party.

be paid to the Decree-holder.

Appointment of Manager.

12.-When the property attached shall consist of debts due to the party who may be auswerable for the amount of the decree, or of any lands, houses, or other immoveable property, it shall be competent to the Court to appoint a manager of the said property with power to sue for the debts, and to collect the rents or other receipts and profits of the land or other immoveable property, and to execute such deeds or instruments in writing as may be necessary for the purpose, and to pay and apply such rents, profits, or receipts toward the payment of the amount of the decree and costs or when the property attached shall consist of land, if the judgment debtor can satisfy the Court that there is reasonable ground to believe that the amount of the judgment may be raised by the mortgage of the on Application land, or by letting it on lease, or by disposing by private sale of a portion of the land, or of any other property belonging to the judgment debtor, it shall be competent to the Court, on the application of the judgment debtor, to postpone the sale for such period as it may think proper, to enable the judgment debtor to raise the amount. In any case in which a manager shall be appointed under this section, such manager shall be bound to render due and proper accounts of his receipts and disbursements, from time to time, as the Court may direct.

Mortgage in lieu of Sale

of Judgment

Debtor.

In absence Judgment Debtor, Court may order

Mortgage in lieu of Sale.

13.-If the judgment debtor shall be absent from the Colony, and it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Court that the public sale of any of his property which has been attached, consisting of lands, houses, or any interest therein, is objectionable, and that satisfaction of the decree may

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