1917

RULES OF SUPREME COURT IN CHINA
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(3) If there are vestiges of sealing-wax or wafers or other marks on
the will leading to the inference that some paper has been at some time
annexed or attached thereto, a satisfactory account of those marks shall
be proved, or the production of the paper shall be required; if it is not
produced, a satisfactory account of its non-production shall be proved.
(4) If a Provincial Court is in doubt whether or not a particular
paper is entitled to probate as a constituent part of a will, the Court shall
communicate with the Supreme Court for directions.
302. The Court shall take care that the copies of wills to be annexed
to probates or letters of administration are fairly and properly written,
and shall reject any not so written.
303. A British subject may in his lifetime deposit for safe custody
in the Court his own will sealed up under his own seal and the seal of
the Court.
Intestacy.
304. When administration is applied for by one or some only of the
next-of-kin, there being another or others equally entitled thereto, the
Court shall require proof that notice of the application has been given to
such other or others.
The Registrar.
305. —(1) The Begistrar shall keep books in such forms as may be
appointed by the Supreme Court; and every entry in such books shall
have a number prefixed corresponding with the number of the action or
matter to which the entry relates.
(2) He shall file all relevant documents delivered to him in any
action or matter, and shall distinguish them by the number of the action
or matter in respect of which they are filed.
(3) He shall, subject to the directions of the Court, keep Minutes
of all proceedings in the Court.
(4) When, under these Buies, any application is to be made to, or
any notice or other document is to be delivered to, filed with, or served
on the Eegistrar, such application, delivery, filing, or service shall be
effected by leaving during office hours the application in writing or the
document in the Begistry, and not otherwise.
306. —(1) The Begistrar of a Provincial Court shall keep a special
book for the entry of documents and warrants for service and execution
proceeding from "the Supreme Court. On the receipt of any such docu¬
ment or warrant he shall enter in his book its number and nature
together with the date of its receipt and of its delivery to the Marshal for
service or execution; also whether any special instructions have been given
by the Supreme Court respecting the service or execution and the nature
of such instructions. He shall also enter from time to time in the book
what has been done respecting the service or execution as reported to him
by the Marshal and the date of its return to the Begistrar of the Supreme
Court.
(2) On receipt from the Marshal of the indorsed original he shall
forward it to the Begistrar of the Supreme Court forthwith together with
an extract from the entries in his book respecting it.
The Marshal.
307. The Marshal is the officer of the Court for serving all such
summonses, warrants, notices, or other documents as are required, by or
under the Principal Order, to be served by an officer of the Court, but
Fair copies of
Deposit
wills.
Application by
one of sereral
equally
entitled.
Registrar to
keep books.
Registrar to
keep a special
book for docu¬
ments issuing
from Supreme
Court.
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