CLAIMS AND OBJECTIONS

35. That every person who shall claim to be entitled to any mortgage, legal or equitable, or to any annual or other charge, incumbrance, or lien, affecting any lands which are the subject of an absolute order, or to any estate or interest in, or any lease or agreement for a lease of the whole or any part of such lands, or any right of common or of cutting turf, in or upon the said lands, or any right of way, or other right or easement upon, or over, or affecting the same, shall put such claim in writing, and file the same in the office of the clerk of the records : and every such claim shall be written upon post paper, bookwise, with a sufficient margin for binding, and shall be in a form to be approved of by the judges, and shall be verified by the party on whose behalf the same is filed, unless the judge shall otherv.àse allow : and every claim for any mortgage, or other charge or incumbrance, or any sum of money, shall state what sum is due for principal, and what sum for interest or arrears (if any), up to the day of verifying the same, and that each such sum is bona fide due over and above all just credits and allowances : provided that in the case of a petition for the execution of a decree or order of the Court of Chancery, or of an order of the Court of Bankruptcy and Insolvency, directing a sale, it shall not be necessary for, any creditor or incumbrancer, whose demand shall have been or may be proved under the decree of the Court of Chancery, or in the Court of Bankruptcy and Insolvency, to file any claim on foot of such demand.

36. That every person filing a claim shall give sufficient notice of the same to the solicitor having carriage of the proceedings; and shall procure and lodge in the examiner's office a copy of the same, certified by the clerk of the records, for which copy there shall be charged the sum of three halfpence for every seventy-two words; and no claim shall be considered as having been filed until such notice shall have been served, and such copy deposited.

37. Tliatif tlie solicitor having the carnage of the proceedings sliall be of opinion that any chiini is not well founded in the whole or in part, and shall have sufficient evidence in his possession or power for resisting the same, it shall be his duty to file an objection to such claim; but in every case the judge, upon application for that purpose, may allow any person other than or in addition to such solicitor, to file an objection to any claim within such time and on such terms as the judge shall think fit; and every objection to a claim shall be in the like form, and verified in the like manner, and a like certified copy thereof shall be lodged with the examiner as is hereinbefore directed with respect to claims; and notice of filing such objection shall be given to the claimant; and until such certified copy shall have been lodged and notice given such objection shall not be considered to have been filed : provided that every claimant shall be bound to establish his claim by sufficient evidence, although no objection shall have been filed thereto, unless such claim shall have been admitted by some person competent to bind by admission, the estate and all persons interested in opposing such claim.