It may interest our readers, and business people generally, to (enow that "The Magistrate's Court Act Aincnmdcnt Art, It'OS," wan amended last year liy "The Magistrate's Court Act Amendment Act, JiKHI." The principal change in the law is that, heretofore a .summons was required to be s?rved three, days prior to the hearing. Now, however, the law requires that all summonses shall ho served seven days before the day uppointed for the hearing, in defended cases, defendants, if they desire to defend must, within live days of the service of the summons on them, give notice in writing to the Clerk of the Court of their intention to defend. If they fail to give tliiw notice in the specified time, the Magistrate shall have power to enter up judgment for the plaintiff without the defendant being permitted to defend,
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King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 253, 23 April 1910, Page 2
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139Untitled King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 253, 23 April 1910, Page 2
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