PRELIMINARY ORDER.

THE RIGHT HONORABLE JOHN LORD CAMPBELL, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, by and with the advice and assistance of THE RIGHT HONORABLE SIR JOHN ROMILLY, Master of the Rolls, THE RIGHT HONOrable The LORD JUSTICE SIR JAMES LEWIS KNIGHT BRUCE, The Right HONORABLE THE LORD JUSTICE SIR GEORGE JAMES TURNER, THE HONORABle the Vice-CHANCELLOR SIR RICHARD TORIN KINDERSLEY, THE HONORABLE THE VICE-CHANCELLOR SIR JOHN STUART, and THE HONORABLE THE VICE-CHANCELLOR SIR WILLIAM PAGE WOOD, Doth hereby, in pursuance and execution of all powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, order and direct in manner following:

RULE 1.

1(a). From and after the fourteenth day of February, 1860, all the General Orders of the High Court of Chan- Abrogation of prior Orders. cery which have been at any time heretofore made, shall be abrogated; and in lieu thereof, the Orders hereinafter expressed shall constitute the General Orders of the said Court; except that—

(1.) All the Orders now in force relating to or connected with the Masters in Ordinary of the said Court,

Exceptions.
ARTICLE (1.)
Masters, or

Orders as to the

the business of

or their reports, or the business of their offices, or their reports, or the further proceedings upon their reports, unless their offices, or otherwise regulated by the now existing practice, further pro

(a) Each paragraph to which an arabic numeral, not inclosed in parenthetical marks, is prefixed, is designated a Rule; and each paragraph of a Rule to which an arabic numeral, inclosed in parenthetical marks, is prefixed, is designated an Article, which is the term applied to similar paragraphs in the Orders of 8th May, 1845. (See 16th Order of that date, 25th Article. And see First Report of the Consolidators, supra, p. xii.) There are very few instances, however, of the subdivision of a Rule into Articles.

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ceedings on their reports.