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ORDINANCE No. 5 OF 1864 . 583.


Bankruptcy and Insolvency.

(( "Creditor."
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 " Creditors
present at
represented by some person duly authorised by any such creditor. any meeting."

"Gaoler " shall include the Keeper or Superintendent of any gaol or " Gaoler."

prison .
" Oath, " " Affidavit," shall mean and include the declaration or " Oath, "
"Affidavit."
affirmation ofany person whom any Act of Parliament or local Ordinance
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shall have authorised to make such declaration or affirmation in lieu of
an oath.

" Petitioning Creditor " shall mean the creditor who filed the petition " Petitioning
Creditor. "
for adjudication .
.."Property. "
" 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, 2
to him before he shall have obtained his discharge .
6. Prisoner."
" 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
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sums of money or costs .

In all cases in which any particular number of days is prescribed by Computation
of time.
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 gen only, Number and
gender.
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 1

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.