Whether the appeal had to be declared inadmissible because the appellant did not pay the advance on court costs within the set deadline.
Yes. The appellant was deemed to have received the advance-payment notice on 23 December 2010 and did not pay by 18 January 2011, so the appeal was inadmissible.
Under Art. 49(2) OELP the appellant had to advance the fee. Under Art. 90(3) CPC-VD, as applied by Art. 58(1) LVLP, failure to advance costs within the fixed time results in forfeiture of the procedural act. The registered notice was deemed notified after the seven-day holding period, and the appellant had to expect judicial correspondence because he had already appealed.