CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE.
No. 3 of 1901.
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adjudged on such principal sum for any period prior to the commencement of the action; and further interest, at such rate as may for the time being be fixed by the court, shall be recoverable on the aggregate sum so adjudged, from the date of the judgment to the date of payment.
352. In any judgment for the payment of money, the court may, for any sufficient reason, order that the amount shall be paid by instalments, with or without interest thereon, and that, in default of payment of any instalment as and when due, execution may issue for the payment of the balance of the amount then remaining due.
353. In any case in which the court has jurisdiction to entertain an application for an injunction against a breach of any covenant, contract, or agreement, or against the commission or continuance of any wrongful act, or for the specific performance of any covenant, contract, or agreement, it shall be lawful for the court, if it thinks fit, to award damages to the party injured, either in addition to or in substitution for such injunction or specific performance, and such damages may be assessed in such manner as the court may direct.
354.-(1) In any action in which it appears to the court that the amount of damages sought to be recovered by the plaintiff is substantially a matter of calculation, the court may direct that the amount for which final judgment is to be signed shall be ascertained by the Registrar or by such other person as the court may appoint.
(2) Under any such direction, the attendance of witnesses and the production of documents before the Registrar or such other person may be compelled by subpoena.
(3) It shall be lawful for the Registrar or such other person to adjourn the inquiry as occasion may require.
(4) The Registrar or such other person shall indorse on the rule or order for referring the amount of damages to him the amount found by him, and shall deliver the rule or order, with such indorsement, to the plaintiff; and such and the like proceedings may thereupon be had, as to taxation of costs, signing judgment, and otherwise, as on the finding of a jury.