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Clerk of records and writs authorized, in urgent cases,

to permit brief copies as well as office copies to be made, subject to certain regulations.

ORDER.

10th March, 1845.

WHEREAS a memorial hath been presented to the Lord Chancellor by several solicitors of this Court, setting forth as therein stated, and praying that his Lordship would be pleased, either to allow what is alleged to have been the ancient practice of the Court as to close and brief copies to be continued, or else to make such new regulations as will give the suitors the facilities for the transaction of business, to which, it is alleged, they have always been accustomed: And whereas his Lordship hath considered the matter of the said memorial, and hath therein called to his assistance the Master of the Rolls; it is thereupon hereby ordered, that the clerks of records and writs may, in cases requiring extraordinary dispatch, permit the stationers employed in their office to make close or brief copies, as well as office copies, subject nevertheless to the following provisions; viz.

I. The clerks of records and writs are to provide:
1. That such permission shall not be given to
any stationer or copyist, who is or may be a
salaried clerk in the office.

2. That such permission shall not be given, in any
case in which the making and delivery of a
close or brief copy would, in any manner, delay
the making or due delivery of the office copy.

II. No officer or clerk in the office shall become entitled to, or shall demand, or receive, any fee, gift, gratuity, emolument, or advantage arising out of, or in any way to be derived from, the permission to make, or the making, or delivery, of any such close or office copy.

LYNDHURST, C.
LANGDALE, M. R.

ORDER OF COURT.

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8th May, 1845.

c. 94.

THE Right Honourable JOHN SINGLETON, Lord LYNDHURST, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, by and with the advice and assistance of the Right Honourable HENRY Lord LANGDALE, Master of the Rolls, the Right Honourable Sir LANCELOT SHADWELL, Vice-Chancellor of England, and the Right Honourable the Vice-Chancellor Sir JAMES WIGRAM, doth hereby, in pursuance of an Act of Parliament passed in the fourth year of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled "An act for faci- 3 & 4 Vict. litating the administration of justice in the Court of Chancery," and of an act passed in the fourth and fifth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled "An act to amend an 4 & 5 Vict. act of the fourth year of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An act for facilitat ing the administration of justice in the Court of Chancery,'" and in pursuance and execution of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, order and direct that all and every the rules, orders, and directions herein-after set forth shall henceforth be, and for all purposes be deemed and taken to be, General Orders and Rules of the High Court of Chancery, viz.

Introductory.

c. 52.

I. The several Orders comprised in the General Order Repeal of of the 3d of April 1828, which are respectively num- cified General

certain spe

a 3

bered Orders.

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bered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 31, 37, and 38, and the amendments made by the General Order of the 23d day of November 1831, in such of the same Orders as are respectively numbered 6, 13, 16, 17, 18, and 19, and also the General Order of the 3d day of April 1830, and also the several Orders comprised in the General Order of the 21st of December 1833 which are respectively numbered 1, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 18, 21, 22, 26, 34, 35, and 36, and the several Orders comprised in the General Order of the 9th of May 1839 which are respectively numbered 1 and 2, and the several Orders comprised in the General Order of the 26th of August 1841 which are respectively numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 14, 20, 21, 22, 33, 34, and 35, and the several Orders comprised in the General Order of the 11th of April 1842 which are respectively numbered 1, 2, 4, and 5, and all other Orders and parts of Orders, so far as such other Orders and parts of Orders sistent Orders. are inconsistent with these Orders, but not further or otherwise, are hereby abrogated and discharged.

and of all other incon

These Orders to take effect on the 28th of October 1845.

Interpretation Clause.

II. All former Orders and parts of Orders not specified in Order I., so far as the same are now in force, and consistent with these Orders, are to remain in full force and effect.

When the Orders are to come into Operation. III. These Orders are, as to all suits now depending or hereafter to, be commenced, to take effect on the 28th day of October 1845.

Interpretation.

IV. In these Orders the following words have the several meanings hereby assigned to them, over and above their several ordinary meanings, unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction; viz.

1. Words

1. Words importing the singular number include the plural number, and words importing the plural number include the singular number.

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1. Number.

2. Words importing the masculine gender include 2. Gender. females.

3. The word person or party includes a body politic 3. "Person or

or corporate.

4. The word bill includes information.

5. The word plaintiff includes informant.

Official Attendance and Vacations.

V. The several offices of the Court, except the offices of the Accountant-General and of the Masters in ordinary and Taxing Masters, are to be open on every day of the year, except

Sundays,

party."

4. "Bill."
5. "Plaintiff."

Official attendance and vacations.

All days appointed by proclamation to be ob

served as days of general fast or thanks

giving.

countantGeneral and

VI. The offices of the Accountant-General, and of Ditto, in Acthe Masters in ordinary and Taxing Masters, are to be open on every day of the year, except the days specified Masters' in Order V., and except during vacations.

Offices.

Vacation

VII. The offices of the vacation Master in ordinary, Ditto, in and of the vacation Taxing Master, are to be open Master's during the vacations on every day except the days spe- Office. cified in Order V.

VIII. The vacations to be observed in the several Vacations. offices of the Court, except in the office of the Accountant-General, are to be four in every year, viz. the

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Easter.

Whitsun.

Long.

Christmas.

First and last days to be included.

Vacations in
Accountant-

General's

Office.

Lord Chancellor may modify order

as to vacations.

Computation of time.

First day to

Easter vacation, the Whitsun vacation, the long vacation, and the Christmas vacation; and

1. The Easter Vacation is to commence and terminate on such days as the Lord Chancellor shall every year specially direct;

2. The Whitsun Vacation is to commence on the third day after Easter Term, and to terminate on the second day before Trinity Term in every year; 3. The Long Vacation is to commence on the 10th day of August, and terminate on the 28th day of October in every year;

4. The Christmas Vacation is to commence on the 24th day of December in every year, and terminate on the 6th day of the following month of January; and

5. The days of the commencement and termination of each vacation are to be included in and reckoned part of such vacation.

IX. The vacations in the office of the AccountantGeneral are to be the same as in the other offices, except as to the Long Vacation, which, in that office, is to commence and terminate on such days as the Lord Chancellor shall every year direct.

X. The Lord Chancellor may from time to time, by special order, direct the offices to be closed on days other than those mentioned in Order V., and direct any of the vacations to commence and terminate on days different from the fixed days mentioned in Order VIII.

Computation of Time.

XI. When any limited time from or after any date or

be excluded, event is appointed or allowed for doing any act or taking

the last to be

included.

any