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poses of this section, shall be in the discretion of the Court or Judge, who may order the same or any part thereof to be paid to any party by the bank, where the same have been occasioned by any default or delay on the part of the bank.
(4.) Any such order against a bank may be enforced as if the bank was a party to the proceeding.
22. Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday, and any bank holiday shall be excluded from the computation of time under sections 20 and 21.
23. All proclamations, treaties, and other acts of state of any Foreign State or of any other British Colony, and all judgments, decrees, orders, and other judicial proceedings of any Court of Justice or any Consulate in any Foreign State or in any other British Colony, and all affidavits, pleadings, and other legal documents filed or deposited in any such Court or Consulate may be proved in the Court either by examined copies or by copies authenticated as hereinafter mentioned; that is to say, if the document sought to be proved is a proclamation, treaty, or other act of state, the authenticated copy to be admissible in evidence must purport to be sealed with the seal of the Foreign State or British Colony to which the original document belongs, and if the document sought to be proved is a judgment, decree, order, or other judicial proceeding of any Court of Justice or any Consulate in any Foreign State or in any other British Colony, or an affidavit, pleading, or other legal document filed or deposited in any such Court, or Consulate, the authenticated copy to be admissible in evidence must purport either to be sealed with the seal of such Court or Consulate, or, in the event of such Court having no seal, to be signed by the judge or, if there are more judges than one, by any one of the judges of such Court, and such judge shall attach to his signature a statement in writing on the said copy that the Court whereof he is a judge has no seal; but if any of the aforesaid authenticated copies purport to be sealed or signed as hereinbefore respectively directed, the same shall respectively be admitted in evidence in every case in which the original document could have been received in evidence, without any proof of the seal, where a seal is necessary, or of the signature, or of the truth of the statement attached thereto, where such signature and statement are necessary, or of the judicial character of the person appearing to have made such signature and statement.
24.--(1.) All answers to interrogatories, disclaimers, examinations, affidavits, declarations, affirmations, and attestations of honour, and all other documents required to be sworn or declared in causes or matters depending in the Supreme Court, and also acknowledgments required for the purpose of enrolling any deed in the said Court, shall and may be sworn, declared, and taken in England, Scotland, or Ireland, or the
Exclusion of certain days from computation of time.
42 & 43 Vict. c. 11 s. 11.
Proof of foreign or colonial act of state, judgment, etc.
14 & 15 Vict. c. 99 s. 6.
Swearing of answer, etc., in Supreme Court in England, etc.
15 & 16 Vict. c. 86 s. 22.