Victoria V. The Attorney General

[FULL BENCH.]
1920     Present : Bertram C.J., De Sampayo J., and Schneider A.J.

VICTORIA v. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL.

100-D. C. Kurunegala, 1,807.

Stamp duty-Ordinance No. 22 of 1909-Ordinance No. 32 of 1919- Must every copy of order nisi be, stamped ?-Translation of order nisi-Summons-Duplicate in Sinhalese and Tamil.

Every copy of an order nisi for service on respondents must be stamped, and must be in the English language.

The summons served upon defendants should be in the English language, and should not be merely a translation.

THE appellant applied for letters of administration to the estate of one Ekanayaka Mudiyanselage Ausadahamy of Uhuniya.

Under section 531 of the Civil Procedure Code the appellant applied to have copies of the order nisi served on the respondents through the Court on affixing class stamps to the original copy of the order nisi, and not to the copies or their translations intended for service or for publication.

The learned District Judge (M. S. Shresta, Esq.) made the following order:-

The point for decision is whether every copy of an order nisi should be stamped, and whether a translation o

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