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Fair copies of wills.
Deposit willa.
Application by
one of several
equally entitled.
Registrar to keep books, &c.
Registrar to keep a special
book for doru. ments issuing
from Supreme Court,
Service of process by Marshal.
RULES OF SUPREME COURT IN CHINA
(3) If there are vestiges of sealing-wax or wafers or other marks on the will leading to the inference that some paper has been at some time annexed or attached thereto, a satisfactory account of those marks shall be proved, or the production of the paper shall be required; if it is not produced, a satisfactory account of its non-production shall be proved.
(4) If a Provincial Court is in doubt whether or not a particular paper is entitled to probate as a constituent part of a will, the Court shall communicate with the Supreme Court for directions.
302. The Court shall take care that the copies of wills to be annexed to probates or letters of administration are fairly and properly written, and shall reject any not so written.
303. A British subject may in his lifetime deposit for safe custody in the Court his own will sealed up under his own seal and the seal of the Court.
Intestacy.
304. When administration is applied for by one or some only of the next-of-kin, there being another or others equally entitled thereto, the Court shall require proof that notice of the application has been given to such other or others.
The Registrar.
305. (1) The Registrar shall keep books in such forms as may be appointed by the Supreme Court; and every entry in such books shall have a number prefixed corresponding with the number of the action or matter to which the entry relates.
(2) He shall file all relevant documents delivered to him in any action or matter, and shall distinguish them by the number of the action or matter in respect of which they are filed.
(3) He shall, subject to the directionso f the Court, keep Minutes of all proceedings in the Court.
(4) When, under these Rules, any application is to be made to, or any notice or other document is to be delivered to, filed with, or served on the Registrar, such application, delivery, filing, or service shall be effected by leaving during office hours the application in writing or the document in the Registry, and not otherwise.
306.-(1) The Registrar of a Provincial Court shall keep a special book for the entry of documents and warrants for service and execution proceeding from the Supreme Court. On the receipt of any such docu- ment or warrant he shall enter in his book its number and nature together with the date of its receipt and of its delivery to the Marshal for service or execution; also whether any special instructions have been given by the Supreme Court respecting the service or execution and the nature of such instructions. He shall also enter from time to time in the book what has been done respecting the service or execution as reported to him by the Marshal and the date of its return to the Registrar of the Supreme Court.
(2) On receipt from the Marshal of the indorsed original he shall forward it to the Registrar of the Supreme Court forthwith together with an extract from the entries in his book respecting it.
The Marshal.
307. The Marshal is the officer of the Court for serving all such summonses, warrants, notices, or other documents as are required, by or under the Principal Order, to be served by an officer of the Court, but
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