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RULES OF VICE-ADMIRALTY COURTS IN II.B.M.'POSSESSIONS ABROAD

The order for committal shall be executed by the marshal.

EXECUTION

174. Any decree or order of the Court may be enforced in the same manner as a decree or order of the Supreme Court of the Possession may be enforced.

INSTRUMENTS, &c.

175. Every warrant, release, commission, attachment, and other instrument to be executed by any officer of, or commissioner acting under the authority of the Court, shall be prepared in the registry and signed by the registrar, and shall be issued under the seal of the Court.

176. Every document issued under the seal of the Court shall bear date on the day of sealing, and shall be deemed to be issued at the time of the sealing thereof.

177. Every document requiring to be served shall be served within six months from the date thereof, otherwise the service shall not be valid.

178. Every instrument to be executed by the marshal shall be left with the marshal by the party at whose instance it is issued, with written instructions for the execution thereof.

NOTICES FROM THE REGISTRY

179. Any notice from the registry may be either left at, or sent by post to the address for service of the party to whom notice is to be given.

FILING

180. Documents shall be filed by leaving the same in the registry, with a minute stating the nature of the document, and the date of filing.

181. Any number of documents in the same action may be filed with one and the same minute.

182. No document, except preliminary acts, bail bonds, documents issued from the registry, and minutes, shall be filed without a certificate indorsed thereon, signed by the party filing the same, that a copy thereof has been served upon the adverse party, if any.

TIME

183. If the time for doing any act or taking any proceeding in an action expires on a Sunday, or on any other day on which the registry is closed, and by reason thereof such act or proceeding cannot be done or taken on that day, it may be done or taken on the next on which the registry is open.

184 Where, by these rules or by any other made under them, any act or proceeding is ordered or allowed to be done within or after expiration of a time limited from or after any date or event, such time, if not limited by hours, shall not include the day of such date or of the happening of such event, but shall commence on the next following day.

185. The judge may, on the application of either party, enlarge or abridge the time prescribed by these rules or forms or by any order made under them for doing any act or taking any proceeding, upon such terms as to him shall seem fit, and any such enlargement may be ordered although the application for the same is not made until after the expiration of the time prescribed.

SITTINGS OF THE COURT

186. The judge shall appoint proper and convenient times for sittings in Corut and in Chambers, and may adjourn the proceedings from time to time and from piace be place as to him shall seem fit.