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     Charlottetown, Prince Ed‘ an] Island, Thursday, September :26, “07. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     LAWS OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     An Act relatiugto Practice and Pleading 
     
     in the Supreme Court. 
     
     [Passed May 17.} 
     
    
   
   
    
     ' E it enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, 
     
     Council. and Assembly, as follows 1—— 
     
    
   
   
    
     I. Current Gold and Silver Coin may be 
     
     taken in execution, and may be paid to the 
     
     creditor as moneyr collected, Government Dc- 
     
     bentures, Treasury Warrants and Notes, and 
     
     Bank Notes, and all bills or evidences of debt 
     
     issued by any Corpoation, and calculated as 
     
     money, may be taken in executimr and paid to 
     
     the creditor at their par value, as money col— 
     
     lected, if he will. accept them, otherwise they 
     
     shall be sold after giving two calendar month’s 
     
     notice of sale thereof in the Royal Gazette 
     
     newspaper. 
     
    
   
   
    
     II. The necessary wearing apparel and bed- 
     
     ding of the debtor and his family, and the tools 
     
     or instruments of his trade or calling, five 
     
     pounds in money, and his last cow shall be 
     
     exempted from execution. 
     
    
   
   
    
     III. All distinction of suing or being sued 
     
     as an attorney shall be abolished. 
     
    
   
   
    
     IV. Upon the trial of any cause, civil or 
     
     criminal, the addresses to the jury shall be 
     
     regulated as follows: The party who begins, 
     
     or his counsel, shall be allowed, in the event of 
     
     his opponent not announcing at the close of 
     
     the case of the party who begins his intention 
     
     to adduce evidence to address the jury a second 
     
     time, at the close of such case, for the purpose 
     
     of summing up the evidence, and the party on 
     
     the other side, or his counsel, shall be allowed 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     to open the case, and also to sum up the 
     
     evidence, if any, and the right to reply shall 
     
     be the same as at present. 
     
    
   
   
    
     V. It shall be lawful for the presiding Judge, 
     
     at the trial of any cause where he may deem 
     
     it right for the purposes of justice, to male an 
     
     adjourmnent for such time, during the same 
     
     term or sittings, and subject to such rules and 
     
     conditions, as to costs or otherwise, as he may 
     
     think lit. 
     
    
   
   
    
     VI. When :interloetury costs shall be taxed 
     
     against any party, 3xecution may be issued ltll‘ 
     
     the recovery thereof. 
     
    
   
   
    
     VII. When. a Judge has power to grant an 
     
     order, he may, in place thereof, grant a rule 
     
     nisi, returnable in Town, and the Court, in 
     
     term, may make a rule returnable at Chambers. 
     
    
   
   
    
     VIII. When cases shall have been fully 
     
     argued, and the seve 'al Judges who heard the 
     
     argument have decided upon the judgment to 
     
     be delivered, and have reduced their Opinion 
     
     to writing, the judgment ofthe Court may be 
     
     pronounced at Chambers, after the seve'al 
     
     opinions have been read. 
     
    
   
   
    
     IX. Upon motions, founded upon affidavits, 
     
     it shall be lawful for either party, with leave 
     
     of the Court or a judge, to make allidavits, in 
     
     answer to the allidavits of the opposite party, 
     
     upon any new matter arising out of such all-i- 
     
     davits, subject to such rules as may be made 
     
     by the said Court or Judge, respecting such 
     
     allidavits. 
     
    
   
   
    
     X. Upon the hearing of any motion or 
     
     summons, it shall be lawful for the Court or a 
     
     Judge, at their discretion, and upon such terms 
     
     as they shall think reasonable, from time to