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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 25TH MARCH, 1899.
Security may be taken for
future costs. Ibid, s. 16. Revival of order for payment of costs.
Ibid, s. 19.
Suing for costs within
one month when client about to leave
etc.
visions have been extended to this Colony) nor of section 18 of this Ordinance respecting the signing and delivery of the bill of a solicitor.
16. A solicitor may take security from his client for his future costs, to be ascertained by taxation or otherwise.
17. Whenever any decree or order has been made for payment of costs in any suit and such suit afterwards becomes abated, it shall be lawful for any person interested under such decree or order to revive such suit, and there- upon to prosecute and enforce such decree or order, and so on from time to time as often as any such abatement shall happen.
18.-(1.) It shall be lawful for the Court to authorize a solicitor to commence a suit for the recovery of his costs against the party chargeable therewith and also to refer his bill of costs and the demand of such solicitor thereupon to be the Colony, taxed, although one month shall not have expired from the delivery of the bill of costs, ou proof to the satisfaction of the Court that there is probable cause for believing that the party chargeable therewith is about to quit the Colony or to become a bankrupt or a liquidating or compounding debtor, or to take any other steps or do any other act which, in the opinion of the Court, would tend to defeat or delay such solicitor in obtaining payment.
38 and 39 Vict. c. 79. s. 2.
Amendment
of s. 37 of G and 7, Vict. c. 73. See Ord. 13 of 1856.
Charges, etc., where mort- gage is made with solici- tor.
58 and 59 Vict, c. 25, s. 2.
Right of soli- citor with whom mori- gage
is made to recover costs.
Ibid, s. 3.
Fecs for ad-
mission as solicitor.
(2.) Section 37 of the English Act of Parliament, 6 and 7 Vict. c. 73, from the words “Provided also that it shall be lawful for any judge of the superior courts of law and equity," to the end of such section, is hereby repealed, so far as it is in force in this Colony.
19.-(1.) Any solicitor to whom, either alone or jointly with any other person, a mortgage is made, or the firm of which such solicitor is a member, shall be entitled to receive for all business transacted and acts done by such solicitor or firm in negotiating the loan, deducing and investigating the title to the property, and preparing and completing the mortgage, all such usual professional charges and remuner- ation as he or they would have been entitled to receive if such mortgage had been made to a person not a solicitor, and such person had retained and employed such solicitor or firm to transact such business, and do such acts; and such charges and remuneration shall accordingly be recover- able from the mortgagor.
(2.) This section applies only to mortgages made after the commencement of this Ordinance.
20.-(1.) Any solicitor to or in whom, either alone or jointly with any other person, any mortgage is made or is vested by transfer or transmission, or the firm of which such solicitor is a member, shall be entitled to receive and recover from the person on whose behalf the same is done or to charge against the security for all business transacted and acts done by such solicitor or firm subsc- quent and in relation to such mortgage or to the security thereby created or the property therein comprised, all such usual professional charges and remuneration as he or they would have been entitled to receive if such mortgage had been made to, and had remained vested in, a person not a solicitor, and such person had retained and employed such solicitor or firm to transact such business and do such acts, and accordingly no such mortgage shall be redeemed except upon payment of such charges and remuneration.
(2.) This section applies to mortgages made and busi- ness transacted and acts done either before or after the commencement of this Ordinance.
21. Any person, who may be admitted to practise within the Colony as a solicitor, whether upon his own account or as clerk to another solicitor or firm of solicitors practising in the Colony, shall, upon such admission, pay a fee to the Court of one hundred and fifty dollars.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 13th day of March, 1899.
J. G. T. BUCKLE, Clerk of Councils.
Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 21st day of March, 1899.
J. H. STEWArt LockharT,
Colonial Secretary.
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