1102 [ 2 of 1889. ] EVIDENCE CONSOLIDATION .
Foreign Law . ( 5. ) Books printed or published under the authority of the
government ofa 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 decisionsof 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.
Public maps.
( 6. )) All mapsmadeunder the anthority of any government,
or of any public municipal body, and not made for
the purpose of any litigated question , shall primâ
facie be deemed to be correct, and shall be admitted
in evidence without further proof.
Affidavit, & c.
under 26 Geo.
28. All affidavits, affirmations and notarial acts taken and
46.87,and 18 made under the Act of the sixth year of King George the
and 19, V. Fourth, chapter eighty -seven or under the Act of the eighteenth
c. 42.
and nineteenth years of Her Present Majesty chapter forty -two,
shall and may be received , read and made use of in and before
the Court and the Judges and officers thereof, in or in relation
to any suit, cause, matter, or proceeding in or before the Court
in like manner , and shall be of the same force and effect, as
affidavits and affirmations taken in or before the Supreme Court
or by any person duly commissioned or authorised by such
Court to take such affidavits or affirmations, and shall be filed
and dealt with accordingly.
Afi
29. All documents whatsoever legally and properly filed or
ambassadors. recorded in any Foreign Court of Justice or Consulate according
[ No. 7 of
1857 , s. 3.7 to the law and practice of such Court or Consulate and all copies
of such documents shall be admissible in evidence in the Court
upon being proved in like manner as any documents filed or
recorded in any Foreign Court are procurable under this or any
other ordinance ; and documents whatsoever so filed or recorded
in any Foreign Court or Consulate and all copies of such docu
ments shall when so proved and admitted , be holden authentic
and effectual for all purposes of evidence as the same would be
holden in such Foreign Court or Consulate.
Documents to 30. Any document purporting to have affixed , impressed,
be admitted
in evidence or subscribed thereon or thereto the seal and signature of any
without or British Ambassador, Envoy, Minister, Chargé d'affaires, Secre
proof
of the seal
signature or
official
tary of Embassy or of Legation, Consul-general, Consul, Vice
character of consul, acting Consul, Pro - consul, or Consular Agent, in testi
the Ambas mony of any such oath , affidavit, affirmation , or act having been
sador or other administered, sworn, affirmed, had, or done by or before bim
official person.
under the acts mentioned in the last section shall be admitted in