For every order for payment out of Court of any annuity or annuities, not exceeding in the whole 57. per annum, or if any interest or dividends upon stock or annuities, not exceeding in the whole 57. per annum, and for no other purpose For every office copy thereof For every other order for payment or trans fer out of Court For every office copy thereof For every office copy thereof For every other order on special motions For every order on arguing exceptions For every order on arguing pleas and de For every order on petition of appeal or re hearing For every office copy thereof For every order on petitions not herein otherwise specified For every office copy thereof For every order in any matter in Lunacy For every office copy thereof 211021 0 10 0 For every order in any matter in Bankruptcy o 10 0 For every copy of a petition of appeal or rehearing, per side For every certificate signed by the Registrar for the sale or transfer of annuities, stock, or Exchequer bills, or for delivery out of the latter For every other certificate signed by the minutes For every exhibit proved viva voce in Court 0 5 0 For setting down causes, exceptions, further directions, pleas and demurrers, each (except for setting down causes on the Registrar's days) For setting down causes on the Registrar's days, each COTTENHAM, C. 01 0 1 1 0 LANCELOT SHADWELL, V. C. 331 GENERAL ORDER OF THE COURT OF CHANCERY, 5th MAY, 1837. ORDER for better regulating the HEARING OF CAUSES and other Matters in the High Court of Chancery. THE Right Honourable Charles Christopher Lord Cottenham, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, by and with the advice and assistance of the Right Honourable Henry Lord Langdale, Master of the Rolls, and the Right Honourable Sir Lancelot Shadwell, Vice Chancellor of England, doth hereby order and direct in manner following; that is to say I. That from and after the 20th day of May, now instant, every original information or bill of complaint filed in the High Court of Chancery, shall (at the option of the party, informant or complainant, by or on whose behalf the information or bill shall be filed), be distinctly marked at or near the top or upper part thereof, either with the words "Lord Chancellor," or with the words "Master of the Rolls:" and that the six clerk and clerk in court to whom the filing of the information or bill belongs, shall, in the books and indexes in which the same shall be entered, add to the entry thereof such distinguishing words or mark as may make it appear from such entry whether the information or bill is marked with the words "Lord Chancellor," or with the words "Master of the Rolls:" and that, from and after the said 20th day of May, the six clerks and clerks in court are not to file any original information or bill of complaint which shall not be marked in the manner herein before directed. II. That, in every cause in which the original information or bill shall be marked with the words "Lord Chancellor," or with the words "Master of the. Rolls," the six clerk to whom it belongs to give or sign the certificate that the cause is ready for hearing shall, upon being applied to for such certificate, see that the same certificate is marked, or cause the same to be marked, with the words "Lord Chancellor," or with the words "Master of the Rolls," in conformity with the like words marked on the original information or bill. III. That in every cause now in Court, but which has not yet been set down for hearing, the clerk in court, who, on the behalf of the informant, or of the plaintiff or defendant, shall, at any time after the 20th day of May instant, apply to the six clerk to set down the cause for hearing, or for the certificate that the cause is ready for hearing, shall state or certify to such six clerk whether any orders or order disposing of any pleas or plea, demurrers or demurrer, or any special orders or order upon merits shown by answer or by affidavits, have or has been made in the cause, or (in case no such order as aforesaid has been made) whether the party on whose behalf the application is made desires the cause to be heard before the Lord Chancellor or the Master of the Rolls; and in case the clerk in court so applying shall certify that any such order as aforesaid has been made by the Lord Chancellor or Vice Chancellor, and not by the Master of the Rolls, or that such orders as aforesaid have been made by both the Lord Chancellor or Vice Chancellor, and the Master of the Rolls, but that the last of such orders has been made by the Lord Chancellor or Vice Chancellor, or (in case no such order has been made in the cause) that the party desires the cause to be heard before the Lord Chancellor, the six clerk giving the certificate shall see that the same certificate is marked, or shall cause the same to be marked, with the words "Lord Chancellor ;" and the six clerk and clerk in court shall cause the entries of the cause in their books and indexes to be marked with such distinguishing words or marks as shall signify that the cause is to be heard before the Lord Chancellor; and in case the clerk in court so applying as aforesaid shall certify that any such order as aforesaid has been made by the Master of the Rolls and not by the Lord Chancellor or Vice Chancellor, or that such orders as aforesaid have been made by both the Lord Chancellor or Vice Chancellor and the Master of the Rolls, but that the last of such orders has been made by the Master of the Rolls, or (in case no such order as aforesaid has been made in the cause) that the party desires the cause to be heard before the Master of the Rolls, the six clerk giving the certificate shall see that the same certificate is marked, or shall cause the same to be marked, with the words "Master of the Rolls;" and the six clerk and clerk in court shall cause the entries of the cause in their books and indexes to be marked with such distinguishing words or marks as shall signify that the cause is to be heard before the Master of the Rolls. IV. That the registrars of the Court, and the secretaries of the Lord Chancellor and of the Master of the Rolls, are not at any time after the said 20th day of May instant, to set down to be heard any cause in which the certificate of the cause being ready for hearing shall not be marked in the manner directed by the 2nd and 3rd Orders, and are not, after the date of these Orders, to set down to be heard before the Master of the Rolls any cause, further directions, or exceptions, which is or are now set down to be heard before the Lord Chancellor, and are not, without special order of the Lord Chancellor, to set down to be heard before the Lord Chancellor any cause, further directions, or exceptions, which is or are now set down to be heard before the Master of the Rolls. |