EVIDENCE.
No. 2 of 1889.
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(3) all proclamations, acts of state, whether legislative or executive, nominations, appointments, and other official communications of the Government appearing in any such Gazette may be proved by its production;
(4) the court may, on matters of public history, literature, science, or art, refer, for the purposes of evidence, to such published books, maps, or charts as the court may consider to be of authority on the subject to which they relate;
(5)-(a) books printed or published under the authority of the Government of a foreign country, and purporting to contain the statutes, code, or other written law of such country, and also printed and published books of reports of decisions of the courts of such country, and books proved to be commonly admitted in such courts as evidence of the law of such country, shall be admissible as evidence of the law of such foreign country; and
(b) maps made under the authority of any Government or of any public municipal body, and not made for the purpose of any litigated question,
shall prima facie be deemed to be correct, and shall be admitted in evidence without further proof.
of document court or
27. All documents whatsoever legally and properly filed Admissibility or recorded in any foreign court of justice or consulate filed in according to the law and practice of such court or consulate, foreign and all copies of such documents, shall be admissible in consulate. evidence in the courts of this Colony on being proved in like manner as any documents filed or recorded in any foreign court are provable under this or any other Ordinance; and all documents whatsoever so filed or recorded in any foreign court or consulate, and all copies of such documents, shall, when so proved and admitted, be held authentic and effectual for all purposes of evidence as the same would be held in such foreign court or consulate.
notice of
28. All courts, judges, magistrates, justices of the peace, Courts to officers of the courts, commissioners acting judicially, and take judicial other judicial officers shall take judicial notice of the signature of signature of the judges, provided such signature is attached 9 Vict. or appended to any judgment, decree, order, certificate, or c. 113, s. 2. other judicial or official document.
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