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EXPENCES OF PROCESS, 
In ordinary cases the expences attending- a ,suit amount to from 
12 to 30 baat or from 15 to 37£ rupees. 
The person non-suited pays all expences. 
The items or fees are collected on memori als—the sealing of these 
—permission to give security—on receiving of evidences—examina¬ 
tion of witnesses—and to the judges for their personal e.vpences 
lehile a suit endures. 
Bail is not admissible in criminal cases. Rut by payment of cer¬ 
tain fees the accused may relieve himself from some of the sufferings to 
which all indicted persons are exposed previous to trial, not except¬ 
ing torture to extort confession. 
The fees noted are 
Rupees or 
1. Permission to find bail (in civil cases, 4 Baat. 
2. 
CRIMINAL cases. 
Exemption from leg irons,. 
4 „ 
3. 
Do. 
from body chains,... 
4 „ 
4. 
Do. 
from the iron neck collar, .. 
4 „ 
5. 
Registrar’s fee,. 
1 I_ # 
1 2 y* 
“ The proofs where the other evidence is insufficient are by fire, water, 
vomits, tigers. The king only posses sentence of death, or his special con¬ 
ferences.”—M. De la Loubere, p. 87. 
* M. De la Loubere in his Hist. Relat. of Siam p. 1G3 of Appendix, gives 
the following “ aecount of the charges of Justice” in his time. 
1 . 
2 . 
3. 
6 . 
When the Judge receives the firstPetilion, 
The judge TchaouMenang [ChauMuang] counts the lines 
and the cancellings and affixes his seal to the Petition, . 
He sends the Petition to one of the Councillors but gen¬ 
erally to the Nai of the parties to examine, and to shew 
the dwelling places of both the sureties of the parlies... , 
To the person who goes to summon parties toattend at the 
Hall of Justice,. 
If he must stop a night on the road, . 
Parties if allowed to give bail, one security for each (or 
surety.) The Judge gets, 16 > 1Q 
The Clerk, 3$ " ;* *' 
Copying the reasons of the two parties to present to the 
judge. - To the Judge, 3 
To the Clerk, 
I livre. 
3 .. 
3* 
3} 
n 
Nearly 10 ponce. 
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