Every solicitor of the Supreme Court shall enter his name and his place of abode or some other place where he may be served with summonses orders rules notices and other proceedings in a book to be kept for that purpose at the office of the Registrar or Deputy Registrar, and shall make the like entry as often as he shall change his place of abode or other such place as aforesaid.

Every solicitor residing in any town or settlement other than Auckland and Wellington shall give notice to the Registrar of Auckland or Wellington or to both (if requisite) of the appointment of any person to act as agent for such solicitor, and such Registrar shall cause an entry to be made in the book mentioned in the foregoing Rule.

Every barrister who shall practice as a solicitor under the provisions of the Supreme Court Ordinance, Session III., No. 1, sec. 17, shall in all such matters as belong to his practice as a solicitor be subject to the control of the Court in like manner as solicitors are by law subject thereto.

It shall be competent for any barrister or solicitor of the Supreme Court to act as a perpetual Commissioner for taking the acknowledgments of married women under the Statute 3 and 4 William IV. c. 74, (the Act for the abolition of fines and recoveries,) upon payment to the Registrar of such fee as may be required by the Rules of the Court.

The 12th Rule shall be deemed to apply to any complaint or demand of a civil nature within the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Court.

Where a plaintiff shall reside beyond the limits of the Colony, it shall be sufficient to file a written warrant or authority in the following form:—

I,  the attorney of , under a power of attorney dated the  day of, do  hereby, &c. [as in Form No. 3].

At the time of filing such warrant or authority, the power of attorney therein mentioned shall be exhibited to the Registrar.

The 19th Rule shall be deemed to extend to the service of notices or other proceedings in any cross action or suit relating to the same property or arising out of the same instrument or transaction as the original suit.

In all applications to a Judge of this Court under Rules 21 and 22, it shall be necessary for the plaintiff or some other person to swear that at the time of making the application the defendant still keeps out of the way and cannot be personally served with process.

When a defendant shall be arrested under the 26th Rule the writ of summons, if not already served, shall be served at the time at which the writ of arrest is executed.

In all cases in which according to the practice of the Courts of Equity in England a party would be entitled to a writ ne exeat regno, the party so entitled shall proceed in the manner prescribed by the 26th Rule, and the writ, with such alterations as the circumstances of the case may render necessary, shall be in the Form No. 8.

All objections on the ground of irregularity or insufficiency of the writ of summons, or particulars of demand or service thereof, shall be made when the cause shall be called on the appearance day and not afterwards. Notice in writing, specifying the irregularity or insufficiency complained of, shall be served on the plaintiff or his solicitor two clear days at least before such appearance day.

The explicit particulars of set-off required by the 30th Rule shall be delivered to the plaintiff or his solicitor four clear days before the appearance day, and not to the Registrar at the time of pleading the same as required by the said Rule.

Where a defendant pleads a set-off exceeding in amount the sum claimed by the plaintiff, he shall be at liberty to add to his particulars of set-off a notice that he claims to recover the excess; and if the Jury shall find that the sum due by the plaintiff to the defendant exceeds the sum due to the plaintiff, the defendant shall be entitled to udgment and execution accordingly.

In an action of a bill of exchange or promissory note a partial failure of consideration may be pleaded, although the amount sought to be deducted shall be unliquidated and not in the nature of a debt certain.

The 43rd Rule shall be deemed to extend to actions brought for the recovery of an account stated by the plaintiff and defendant and signed by the defendant.

The 57th Rule, relating to discovery, shall be extended to any party or intended party to a suit or action in the Supreme Court who would be entitled, according to the practice of the Superior Courts at Westminster, to file a bill in equity against the opposite party for a discovery.

The examination of a witness de bene esse may be taken before a Judge in the manner prescribed by the 57th Rule, or under a Commission, as the case may require.

The following Rule is substituted for Rule 64:—If any party against whom a verdict shall have been found shall desire to obtain a new trial, he shall move accordingly at the next sitting of the Court for the hearing of motions for a rule calling on the opposite party to show cause why a new trial should not be granted. Such motion may be made on circuit, but cause must be shown at Auckland or Wellington. If no such motion be made, or if the rule be refused, execution may issue forthwith. Writs of execution shall be in one other of the Forms Nos. 13 and 14 in the Appendix.

The provisions of the 1 and 2 Vict c. 110, sec. 13, relative to the mode in which a judgment creditor shall proceed to obtain a sale of lands bound by the judgment, are substituted for the 65th Rule.

The 68th Rule shall be confined to rules which are absolute in the first instance, and shall not be deemed to extend to rules to show cause. No affidavit shall be read in answer to any affidavit in support of the motion unless it shall have been filed in the Registrar’s office during office hours on the day preceding.

Where a party would be entitled to move for a common injunction, he shall proceed by motion in the cause to stay proceedings therein, upon proper affidavit.

The following is substituted for the 73rd Rule:—Cause must be shown on affidavit filed one clear day at least before the day fixed for showing cause. If sufficient cause be not shown, the Judge shall direct the Registrar or Deputy Registrar forthwith to issue a writ in the Form No. 17 to enforce payment of such fine or of such part thereof as to the Judge may seem meet.

The 75th Rule shall not be construed to interfere with the practice as to certifying for costs in special jury cases, in conformity with the usage of the Superior Courts of Common Law at Westminster.

In order to obtain an injunction to prevent irreparable injury or damage to property, or to restrain waste, or for any of the purposes to which a special injunction is by law applicable, it shall be necessary to apply to the Court or a Judge thereof upon an affidavit setting forth the circumstances out of which the plaintiff’s right to such injunction may arise and the nature of the injury apprehended by him, and showing reasonable grounds for such apprehension.

Any defendant or other person against whom an injunction shall operate may move the Court to dissolve the same upon affidavit. Notice of such motion shall be given to the opposite party two clear days at least before the day appointed for the hearing thereof.

Appointment as perpetual Commissioner, under 3 and 4 Wm. IV., c. 74, £1.