ORDINANCE No. 15 OF 1844.
Supreme Court.
10. And be it further enacted and ordained, that in case there shall not be a sufficient number of such barristers at law, advocates, writers, attorneys, solicitors, and proctors within the said Colony, competent and willing to appear, and act for the suitors of the said Court, then, and in that case, the said Supreme Court of Hongkong shall, and is hereby authorized to admit temporarily so many other fit and proper persons to appear and act as barristers, advocates, proctors, attorneys, and solicitors as may be necessary, according to such general rules and qualifications as the said Court shall, for that purpose, make and establish: Provided always that the persons so admitted, shall be admitted for a period of three months only, and shall not be readmitted without obvious necessity.
11. And be it further enacted and ordained, that the sheriff of Hongkong for the time being, shall by himself or his sufficient deputy to be by him appointed and duly authorized under his hand and seal, and for whom he shall be responsible during his continuing in such office, execute, and the said sheriff and his said deputy is hereby authorized to execute, all the writs, summonses, rules, orders, warrants, commands, and processes of the said Supreme Court of Hongkong, and make a return of the same, together with the manner of the execution thereof, to the said Supreme Court of Hongkong, and to receive, and detain in prison, all such persons as shall be committed to the custody of such sheriff by the said Supreme Court of Hongkong.
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sheriff.
12. And be it further enacted and ordained, that whenever the said Supreme Court of Hongkong shall direct or award any process against the said sheriff, or award any process in any cause, matter, or thing wherein the said sheriff, on account of his being related to the parties, or any of them, or by reason of any good cause of challenge which would be allowed against any sheriff in England, cannot, or ought not by law to execute the same, in every such case the said Supreme Court of Hongkong shall name and appoint some other fit person to execute and return the same, and the said process shall be directed to the person so to be named for that purpose, and the cause of such special proceedings shall be suggested and entered on the records of the said Court.
13. And be it further enacted and ordained, that the said Supreme Court shall have the same jurisdiction in the said Colony of Hongkong and its dependencies, as Her Majesty's Courts of Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer, lawfully have in England; and shall be a Court of oyer and terminer and gaol delivery, assize and nisi prius.
14. And be it further enacted and ordained, that the said Supreme Court shall be a Court of Equity, with such, and the like jurisdiction, as the Court of Chancery in England; and shall have, and execute all, and singular, the powers, and authorities of the Lord High Chancellor of England, with full liberty to appoint and control guardians of infants, and their estates, and also keepers of the persons and estates of idiots, lunatics, and such as being of unsound mind, are unable to govern themselves, and their estates.
15. And be it further enacted and ordained, that the said Supreme Court shall be a Court of Ecclesiastical jurisdiction, with full power to grant probates, under the seal of
Jurisdiction of Court: legal.
Equitable.
Ecclesiastical.
ORDINANCE No. 15 OF 1844.
Supreme Court.
10. And be it further enacted and ordained, that in case there shall not be a sufficient number of such barristers at law, advocates, writers, attornies, solicitors, and proctors within the said Colony, competent and willing to appear, and act for the suitors of the said Court, then, and in that case, the said Suprene Court of Hongkong shall, and is hereby authorized to admit temporarily so many other fit and proper persons to appear and act as barristers, advocates, proctors, attornies, and solicitors as may be necessary, according to such general rules and qualifications as the said Court shall, for that purpose, make and establish: Provided always that the persons so admitted, shall be admitted for a period of three months only, and shall not be readmitted ⚫ without obvious necessity.
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11. And be it further enacted and ordained, that the sheriff of Hongkong for the time being, shall by himself or his sufficient deputy to be by him appointed and duly authorized under his hand and seal, and for whom he shall be responsible during his continuing in such office, execute, and the said sheriff and his said deputy is hereby authorized to execute, all the writs, summonses, rules, orders, warrants, commands, and processes of the said Supreme Court of Hongkong, and make a return of the same, together with the manner of the execution thereof, to the said SupremeTM Court of Hongkong, and to receive, and detain in prison, all such persons as shall be committed to the custody of such sheriff by the said Supreme Court of Hongkong.
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Fit persons to he admitted to practise for three months in case of necessity.
Sheriff of
Hongkong to execute writs and process.
sheriff.
12. And be it further enacted and ordained, that whenever the said Supreme Process against Court of Hongkong shall direct or award any process against the said sheriff, or award any process in any cause, matter, or thing wherein the said sheriff, on account of his being related to the parties, or any of them, or by reason of any good cause of challenge which would be allowed against any sheriff in England, cannot, or ought not by law to execute the same, in every such case the said Supreme Court of Hongkong shall name and appoint some other fit person to execute and return the same, and the said process shall be directed to the person so to be named for that purpose, and the cause of such special proceedings shall be suggested and entered on the records of the said Court.
13. And be it further enacted and ordained, that the said Supreme Court shall have the same jurisdiction in the said Colony of Hongkong and its dependencies, as Her Majesty's Courts of Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer, lawfully have in England; and shall be a Court of oyer and terminer and gaol delivery, assize and nisi prius.
14. And be it further enacted and ordained, that the said Supreme Court shall be a Court of Equity, with such, and the like jurisdiction, as the Court of Chancery in England; and shall have, and execute all, and singular, the powers, and authorities of the Lord High Chancellor of England, with full liberty to appoint and control guardians of infants, and their estates, and also keepers of the persons and estates of idiots, lunatics, and such as being of unsound mind, are unable to govern themselves, and their estates.
15. And be it further enacted and ordained, that the said Supreme Court shall be a Court of Ecclesiastical jurisdiction, with full power to grant probates, under the seal of
Jurisdiction of Court: legal.
Equitable.
Ecclesiastical.
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