Section 9, The Debtors' Ordinance

It shall be lawful for any person arrested upon a warrant, Proceedingsor committed to custody under this Ordinance, to make a ~Jr!~~~~r written application to the Court at any time after such arrest or comr_nitted to committal to custody as aforesaid, and if the written permission ~s~~~rge. of the Court be first had and obtained in that behalf to serve an order or rule on the plaintiff in the action to show cause, on a day to be named in such order or rule, why the person arrested or committed to custody as aforesaid should not be discharged out of custody; and it shall be lawful for such Court to make absolute or discharge such order or rule, and to direct the costs of the application to be paid by either party, or to make such order therein as to such Court shall seem just and fit. S.L.-VoL. l-16* Cost of subsistence of persons arrested. Interim attachment of property. Application for attachment. Form of order.