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512 ORDINANCE No. 7 OF 1862 .


Court of Summary Jurisdiction.


incident to any ministerial office of the said Court, as the Chief Justice shall from time
All proceedings to time direct ; and all proceedings, decrees , orders and acts of such Judge of the Court
and decrees
before him to be of Summary Jurisdiction so to be had made or done shall be deemed and taken respect
valid as acts of
The Supreme
Court. ively, as the nature of the case shall require, to be proceedings, decrees, orders and
acts of the said Supreme Court, and shall have force and validity and be executed
accordingly, subject in every case to be reversed , discharged, or altered by the Chief
Proviso that no Justice : Provided that in all such cases an appeal shall lie to the Chief Justice , notice
decree, &c., of
Chief Justice
shall be reversed of such appeal to be given within three months : Provided also that the said Judge of
by such Judge.
the Court of Summary Jurisdiction , when so sitting for the Chief Justice as aforesaid ,
shall have no power or authority to discharge, reverse, or alter any decree, order, act
or thing made or done by the said Chief Justice, unless authorized by him so to do.
[Amended by Ordinance No. 1 of 1871 and therein referred to as "section 34 " and see
section 43 ofthe same Ordinance. ]
Suspending 34. This Ordinance shall not come into operation until proclamation be made to
clause.
that effect by command of His Excellency the Governor, and published in the Hong
kong Government Gazette.




SCHEDULE No. 1 TO WHICH THIS ORDINANCE REFERS .


Entry of Plaint.
Hongkong A. B. of
to wit. J
in the Colony of Hongkong hereby requires entry to be made in the Court of Summary Jurisdiction, of
his plaint against C. D. of in the said Colony, for a sum of
being for (here state generally the cause of action)
in the particular hereunto annexed fully [set forth. And the said A. B. hereby declares that the said
particular contains a correct, full, and true statement of his demand against the said C. D. and that the
said C. D. is justly and truly indebted to him the said A. B. in the said sum of
and thereupon the said A. B. prayeth that the said C. D. may be summoned to attend on the
day of at the said Court, to answer such his demand.
Dated this day of A. D. 186 •
A. B.—Plaintiff.


Form of Plaint under section 12 of this Ordinance,
Hongkong A. B.
to wit.
hereby requires entry to be made in the Court of Summary Jurisdiction of his plaint against C. D. of
in the said Colony (for the said C. D. withholdsfrom the
said A. B. the possession of being premises situated in this
Colony (or for that the said C. D. owes and refuses to pay the sum of being rent
due by the said C. D. to the said A. B.) .
And the sail A. B. hereby declares that the particulars hereunto annexel contain a full account of
his demand against the said C. D. and thereupon he prays that the said C. D. may be summonel to
attend on at to answer such his demand.
Dated
A. B.- Plaintiff.