Key legal question
Whether the appellant’s advance payment of the court costs was timely despite payment after the stated calendar deadline.
Extracted holding
No. The court set the deadline by calendar day, not by counting days backward from receipt of the order; the payment made on 30 May 2014 was late.
Extracted reasoning
A judge may either set a deadline by number of days or by a fixed calendar date. Here the latter was chosen. Since the order was duly served, the advance had to be paid by 26 May 2014. The appellant’s recalculation was impermissible.