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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 31st OCTOBER, 1863.
Annulling."
“Assignees.”
Bankrupt."
Adjudication."
"Court."
* Creditor."
"Creditors present at any Meeting."
"Gaoler."
"Oath,”
""Affidavit."
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Annulling" shall mean also "Superseding."
Assignee" shall mean the Assignee of the Estate and Effects of the Bankrupt Petitioner, chosen by the Creditors and until such Assignee shall be chosen, or no such Assignee, shall mean the Official Assignee.
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Bankrupt" shall mean any Person who shall have been under any former Ordi- nance adjudged insolvent or who shall be by any Court under the provisions of this Ordinance adjudicated bankrupt.
"Adjudication" shall mean Adjudication of Bankruptcy.
"The Court" shall mean the Court of Bankruptcy acting under this Ordinance.
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Creditor" shall mean also any two or more Persons being Partners, and incor- porated and Joint Stock Companies.
"Creditors present at any meeting" shall include Creditors who are represented by some Person duly authorised by any such Creditor and such authority shall not require a Stamp.
“Gaoler" shall include the Keeper or Governor of any Gaol or Prison.
"Oath,"
," "Affidavit," shall mean and include the Declaration or Affirmation of any Person whom any Act of Parliament shall have authorised to make such Declaration or Affirmation in lieu of an Oath.
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"Petitioning Cre- ‘Petitioning Creditor" shall mean the Creditor who filed the Petition for Adju-
ditor."
"Property."
"Prisoner."
Computation of time.
Number and Gender.
Departing the Colony.
House.
Beginning to keep
dication.
"Property" shall mean and include all the real and personal estate and effects of the Petitioner or Bankrupt, within this Realm and abroad (except as herein provided) and all the future estate, right, title, interest, and trust of such Petitioner or Bankrupt in or to any real or personal estate and effects within this Realm or abroad, which may revert, descend, be devised or bequeathed or come and all debts due or to be due to him before he shall have obtained his discharge.
"Prisoner" shall mean any Person in actual custody within the walls of any Prison in Hongkong for any debt, dainages, costs, sum or sums of money, or for any contempt by reason of non-payment of any sum or sums of money or costs.
In all cases in which any particular number of Days is prescribed by this Ordi- nance or shall be mentioned in any Rule or Order of Court which shall at any time be made under this Ordinance for the doing of any act, or for
any other purpose, the same shall be reckoned, in the absence of any expression to the contrary, exclusive of the first and inclusive of the last day unless the last day shall happen to fall on a Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday, Monday and Tuesday in Easter Week, or on a Day appointed for a Public Fast or Thanksgiving, in which case the time shall be reckoned exclusive of that day also.
Words importing the singular number or the masculine gender only, shall be un- derstood to include several matters as well as one matter, and several Persons as well as one Person, and Bodies Corporate as well as Individuals, and Females as well as Males; and Words importing the plural number shall be understood to apply to one matter as well as to more than one and to one Person as well as more than one.
As to acts of Bankruptcy.
XI. If any Debtor shall with intent to defeat or delay his Creditors depart from this Colony or being out of this Colony shall with such intent remain away from the Colony for more than Twelve Months after the passing of this Ordinance, or shall with Departing from his such intent depart from his dwelling house or otherwise absent himself or begin to keep his house or suffer himself to be taken in execution for any debt not due, or yield himself to Prison or procure himself to be arrested or taken in execution, or his goods, money, or chattels to be attached or taken in execution or shall with such intent Fraudulent surren- within this Colony or elsewhere, make any fraudulent conveyance, gift, delivery or reader of his Property. transfer of his real or personal property or any part thereof respectively, such Debtor Rules to be observed. shall in any such case be deemed to have committed an act of Bankruptcy:
always that before any adjudication shall be made against such Debtor under this Sec. tion the following Rules shall be observed:
his House.
Yielding himself to Prison.
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