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      OF SUMMARY PROCEDURE ON LIQUID CLAIMS Action by summary procedure on liquid claims . 703. All actions where the claim is for a debt or liquidated demand in money arising upon a bill of exchange, promissory note, or cheque, or instrument or contract in writing for a liquidated amount of money, or on a guarantee where the claim against the principal is in respect at such debt or liquidated demand, bill, note, or cheque, may, in case the plaintiff desires to proceed under this Chapter, be instituted by presenting a plaint in the form prescribed by this Ordinance, but the summons shall be in the form No. 19 in the First Schedule, or in such other form as the Supreme Court may from time to time prescribe. P. & O. Banking Corporation v. Selvathurai - (1926) 28 NLR 289 Liquid claim-Order for payment by instalments-Banking corporation-Civil Procedure Code, Chapter LIII. Where, in an action by way of summary procedure on a liquid claim, the defendant admits liability, it is