ORDINANCE No. 5 of 1864.
Bankruptcy and Insolvency.
"Creditor" shall mean also any two or more persons being partners, and incorporated and joint stock companies.
"Creditors present at any meeting" shall include creditors who are represented by some person duly authorised by any such creditor.
"Gaoler" shall include the Keeper or Superintendent of any gaol or prison.
"Oath," "Affidavit," shall mean and include the declaration or affirmation of any person whom any Act of Parliament or local Ordinance shall have authorised to make such declaration or affirmation in lieu of an oath.
"Petitioning Creditor" shall mean the creditor who filed the petition for adjudication.
"Property" shall mean and include all the real and personal estate and effects of the petitioner or bankrupt, 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 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, damages, costs, sum or sums of money, or for any contempt by reason of non-payment of any sum or sums of money or costs.
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"Creditor."
"Creditors present at any meeting."
"Gaoler."
"Oath," "Affidavit."
"Petitioning Creditor."
"Property."
"Prisoner."
Computation of time.
In all cases in which any particular number of days is prescribed by this Ordinance 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 or 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 understood 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.
Number and gender.
ORDINANCE No. 5 or 1864.
Bankruptcy and Insolvency.
"Creditor" shall mean also any two or more persons being partners, and incorporated and joint stock companies.
"Creditors present at any meeting" shall include creditors who are represented by some person duly authorised by any such creditor.
"Gaoler" shall include the Keeper or Superintendent of any gaol or
prison.
"Oath," "Affidavit," shall mean and include the declaration or affirmation of any person whom any Act of Parliament or local Ordinance shall have authorised to make such declaration or affirmation in lieu of an oath.
"Petitioning Creditor" shall mean the creditor who filed the petition for adjudication.
"Property" shall mean and include all the real and personal estate and effects of the petitioner or bankrupt, 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 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, damages, costs, sum or suins of money, or for any contempt by reason of non-payment of any sum or sums of money or costs.
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"Creditor."
"Creditors
present at any meeting."
"Gaoler.”
"Oath," *Affidavit.
"Petitioning Creditor."
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Property."
Prisoner.
of time.
In all cases in which any particular number of days is prescribed by Computation this Ordinance 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 or 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 understood 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
and to one person as well as more than one.
one,
Number and
gender.
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