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ORDINANCE No. 7 OF 1856. 339


Chancery Procedure.


3. For the purposes of this Ordinance, the words " Great Seal " in The scal of
the Court, its
the said enactments and orders, respectively so extended to this Colony, Judges, and
its officers, to
shall be interpreted to include the seal of the Supreme Court of this Colony, be within the
meaning of
and all the provisions thereof which respect the Lord Chancellor, or the the extended
provisions.
Court of Chancery, or any Superior Court of Equity, or any Judge in
England, shall be interpreted to include the said Supreme Court in Equity
and the Judges thereof, and every officer ( howsoever designated ) of the
said Supreme Court, or Judge thereof having or exercising functions of
the like kind or analagous to the functions of any officers ( howsoever
designated ) of the said Lord Chancellor, Court of Chancery, Superior

Courts of Equity, or Judges in England , shall be deemed to be within
the meaning of any of the provisions of such enactments or orders re
specting such last mentioned officers.
Rules for the
4. In the interpretation ofthe enactments and orders hereby extended
interpretation
of the extend
to this Colony , the following rules shall be observed within the same. ed enactments
and orders.
1. The authority and force of an order are equal to the authority 1. Enact
ments and
and force of an enactment. orders are
of equal
authority.
2. Except in the cases specified in division 3 of this section, every 2. Subse
quent enact
enactment or order which shall appear to be wholly or ments or
orders to
partially repugnant to or inconsistent with some previous abrogate
preceding
enactment or order , shall be deemed to have abrogated the ones, in case
of apparent
same pro tanto. repugnance.

3. Every enactment or order for regulating the performance of 3. Except
in the case
the powers or duties of a master in ordinary or of a master of enact
ments, & c.,
in lunacy passed or promulgated subsequently to the passing relating to
masters in
of the Act of Parliament of the fifteenth and sixteenth years ordinary or
lunacy.
of the present Queen, chapter eighty, and the promulgation
of the General Orders for giving effect to the same, shall be so
construed as to enable a Judge in Court or in chambers
to exercise and perform the said powers and duties within
this Colony as nearly as circumstances will permit in the
stead of any such masters respectively.

4. All provisions contained in any enactment or order respecting 4. Provi
sions respect
the printing of bills and claims, or portions of bills and ing printed or
stamped
claims , or respecting the stamping or affixing of stamps on proceedings
to apply to
vellum, parchment , or paper to be used in proceedings in written and