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action adjudication affidavit amount answer appeal application appointed arbitrators attachment bill bound cause certified CHAPTER Civil Code Civil Procedure claim collocated colonial trustee connection with Article contained contestation copy costs court or judge curator day fixed debt declaration default defendant delay deposit discharge District Court document domicile duly effect eight days experts expiration filed garnishee Gazette given granted hypothecs immoveable imprisonment interest inventory issue judge may order judgment debtor judgment rendered Lucia manner ment mentioned in Article moveables notary notice oath obtain opposite party ordinary paid into court payment person petition plaintiff pleading possession prescribed proceed proceedings protest protho prothonotary prothonotary's office provisions purchaser received Royal Court seals SECTION seizure sequestrator served sheriff solicitor sufficient suit sureties sworn therein thereof tion unless Windward Islands witness writ of attachment writ of capias writ of execution writ of summons
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Page 9 - ... a Court or a judge shall have power to enlarge or abridge the time appointed by these rules, or fixed by any order enlarging time, for doing any act or taking any proceeding, upon such terms (if any) as the justice of the case may require, and any such enlargement may be ordered although the application for the same is not made until after the expiration of the time appointed or allowed.
Page 191 - Wherefore I, the said notary, at the request aforesaid, have protested, and by these presents do protest • against the...
Page 162 - ... such property by the appellant, he will not commit, or suffer to be committed, any waste thereon, and that if the judgment be affirmed, he will pay the value of the use and occupation of the property, from the time of the appeal until the delivery of possession thereof, pursuant to the judgment...
Page 113 - Plaintiff in a sum amounting to or exceeding forty dollars and that the Deponent has reason to believe, and verily believes, for reasons, specially stated in the affidavit, that the Defendant is about to leave immediately the Province of Canada, with intent to defraud his creditors in general, or the Plaintiff in particular, and that such departure will deprive the Plaintiff of his recourse against the Defendant...
Page 131 - Whenever two contiguous lands have never been bounded, or the boundaries have disappeared, or the fences or boundary works have been wrongly placed, and one of the neighbours refuses to agree upon a surveyor to determine the boundaries, or to verify or to rectify the division line, as the case may be, the other party may bring an action against him to compel him to do so.
Page 32 - ... parties, whether plaintiffs or defendants, who ought to have been joined, or whose presence before the Court may be necessary in order to enable the Court effectually and com.» i pletely to adjudicate upon and settle all the questions ; involved in the cause or matter, be added.
Page 189 - I or we) the undersigned of in hereby certify that I (or we) (have carried on and) intend to carry on trade and business as at in partnership with of and of (as the case may be).
Page 113 - ... amount of the damages sought and the facts which gave rise to them, and the judge may in his discretion either grant or refuse the capias and may fix the amount of the bail upon giving which the defendant may be released.
Page 43 - When witnesses are called to prove the identity of any object in the possession of one of the parties, the court or judge may order that the party shall, either in court or at any other convenient place or time, exhibit such object to the witnesses thus called to give evidence concerning it ; and ,in default of his so exhibiting the object, it will be held to have been identified. The court or judge may...
Page 193 - I AB, notary public for the Province of , dwelling at , in the Province of , at the request of , did exhibit the original promissory note, whereof a true copy is above written, unto , the promisor...