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RULES OF SUPREME COURT IN CHINA
Marshal to
keep books
and make
returns.
•Order for
Sales and
-detention ot
Rules to apply
documents,
out of Supreme
Court.
the Court may direct service by any other officer or person, and in that
case the provisions of these Rules shall apply to service by such other
officer or person.
308. The Marshal shall keep books and make Returns to Court in
such forms as shall be appointed by the Supreme Court; and every entry
in such books shall have a number prefixed corresponding with the num¬
ber of the action or matter to which it relates.
309. —(1) The Marshal shall enter in an Order Book all orders for
the payment of money or costs or both which he shall have received from
the Registrar, and the date on which he shall have caused them to be
served.
(2) The Marshal shall, •within twenty-four hours from the receipt of
the same, pay over to such person as the Court shall designate any money
which he shall have levied or received by virtue of any process issued out
of the Court, and the proper officer shall indorse upon the warrant a
memorandum of having received the same, and deliver to the Marshal a
copy of the memorandum under the seal of the Court, and the Marshal
shall file such copy and retain the same in his custody as his voucher.
310. The Marshal shall execute every warrant issued to him as soon
as possible, and enter in the proper book every warrant which he has been
required to execute with the date and hour of its delivery to him, and
shall state from time to time therein what he shall have done under each
warrant, and, if the same is not executed within one month from the day
of its delivery to him, why it has not been executed; and shall at all
reasonable times give to a suitor, his legal practitioner or agent every
information he may reasonably require as to the execution or non-execu¬
tion of any warrant issued at the instance of such suitor.
311. —(1) Where any personal property is directed to be sold by
auction, detained, or preserved, the Marshal shall, if the Court shall so
direct, superintend such sale, detention, or preservation, and where the
property is to be sold by private contract he shall carry out the directions
of the Court in respect of such sale.
(2) Where a warrant directs the Marshal to detain and preserve
any goods or chattels he shall take and retain possession of them until he
receives further orders from the Court concerning them.
(3) Where a warrant directs the Marshal to take possession of any
goods and chattels until good security is given by some party for the safe
keeping or for the payment of the value of them in default of safe keeping,
but shall not specify the amount of the security, he shall make, or cause
to be made, an inventory or appraisement of the goods or chattels which
he may take into his possession, and upon receiving as a deposit the
amount of the appraisement or sufficient security, to be. approved by the
Court, for the safe custody and for delivery up of possession, upon
request, of the goods and chattels, he may relinquish the possession of
them on condition that they shall be redelivered to him or held to abide
the order of the Court. If the warrant specifies the amount of security,
no less deposit or security shall be sufficient.
312. In the service of documents and execution of warrants proceed¬
ing from the Supreme Court in the district of a Provincial Court these
Rules shall be observed, unless any special directions are given by the
Supreme Court, in which case such directions are to be strictly followed.