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259. Service of a document not required to be served personally must Hours for be made before five o'clock in the evening.
If made after that hour on any day but Saturday, it shall be con- sidered as made on the following day.
If made after that hour on Saturday, it shall be considered as mado on the following Monday.
Service.
260. No service in a civil suit shall be made on Sundays, Christmas Sundays and
holy days. Day, or Good Friday.
Absconding Defendant
261. Where the Court is satisfied by evidence on oath that there is Bail good reason to believe that a defendant means to abscond in order to avoid the process of the Court, after suit or other proceeding instituted, the Court may make an order to hold him to bail, and may require of him such security as seems fit for his remaining within the particular juris- diction, and abiding by and performing any decree or order to le made in the suit or proceeding, and for costs and fees.
Costs
262. The costs of the whole suit and of each particular proceeding Discretion of therein are in the discretion of the Court; but the Court shall not Court. order the successful party in a suit to pay to the unsuccessful party the costs of the suit generally, although the Court may order him, notwith- standing his success in the whole suit, to pay the costs occasioned by any particular proceeding therein.
263. The Court may, if in any case it sees fit, require any party to Security for any suit or proceeding, either at the commencement or at any time during costs. the progress thereof, to give security for costs to the satisfaction of the Court by deposit or otherwise.
Paupers
defendant.
264. The Court may admit any person to sue in formá pauperis on Pauper plaintif being satisfied of his poverty, and that he has prima facie a case proper for some relief in the Court; and may admit any person to defend in formá pauperis on being satisfied of his poverty.
pauper.
265. If in any case the Court thinks fit to assign a counsel or attorney Counsel or to assist a person admitted to sue or defend in forma pauperis, the counsel attorney for or attorney so assigned may not refuse his assistance, unless he satisfies the Court of some good reason for refusing.
266. If a pauper gives or agrees to give any fee, profit, recompense, Pauper dis- or reward for the despatch of his business in Court, he shall be deemed Pipered for 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 forma pauperis.
267. A person admitted to sue or defend in forma pauperis may be or for insufficient dispaupered, by order of the Court, on its appearing that he was not poverty. when admitted, or no longer is of sufficient poverty, or that he is abusing his privilege by vexatious proceedings.
Computation of Time
268. Whereby 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 hours, 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.
Days.
269. Where the limited time so appointed or allowed is less than six Sundays and days, the following days shall not be reckoned in the computation of such ho
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