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DROIT




INSOLVENT DEBTOR'S ACT.



HONGKONG ,


ANNO NONO



VICTORIÆ REGINE.



No. 3 of 1846.


Y His Excellency Sir JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS, Baronet, Governor
and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its
Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipo-
tentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects
in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.


An Ordinance for the Relief ofInsolvent Debtors within the Colony Title.
ofHongkong.
[ 6th May, 1846. ]


WHEREAS it is expedient that express Provisions should be Preamble.
made for such Cases of Insolvency :

I. Be it therefore enacted and ordained by the Governor of Persons Imprisoned
for Debt may to
Hongkong with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, That the Supreme Court in
from and after the Time appointed for the Commencement of this a Summary Way for
Discharge.
Ordinance, it shall be lawful for any Person who shall be in actual
Custody within the Walls of any Prison in the Colony of Hongkong,
upon any Process whatsoever, for or by Reason of any Debt, Damages,
Costs, Sum or Sums of Money, or for or by Reason of any Contempt
of any Court whatsoever, for Nonpayment of any Sum or Sums of
Money, or of Costs taxed or untaxed, either ordered to be paid, or to
the Payment of which such Person would be liable in purging such
Contempt, or in any Manner in consequence or by Reason of such
Contempt, at any Time within the Space of Fourteen Days next Time of Petitioning .
after the Commencement of the actual Custody of such Prisoner,
whether such Commencement shall have been in the same Prison,
or in any other Prison ; or afterwards, if the Supreme Court of
Hongkong shall in any case think reasonable to permit the same, to
apply by Petition in a Summary Way to the said Supreme Court
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