ORDINANCE No. 15 OF 1844 . 55
Supreme Court.
10. And be it further enacted and ordained, that in case there shall not be a Fit persons to be
admitted to
sufficient number of such barristers at law, advocates, writers , attornies , solicitors , and practise for three
months in case of
proctors within the said Colony, competent and willing to appear, and act for the necessity.
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.
11. And be it further enacted and ordained , that the sheriff of Hongkong for the Sheriff of
Hongkong to
time being, shall by himself or his sufficient deputy to be by him appointed execute writs
and process.
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.
12. And be it further enacted and ordained, that whenever the said Supreme Process against
sheriff.
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 Jurisdiction of
Court: legal.
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 Equitable.
a Court ofEquity, 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 Ecclesiastical.
a Court of Ecclesiastical jurisdiction , with full power to grant probates, under the seal of
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