IN CHINA AND JAPAN.
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229. The Court shall not refrain from carrying an award into Irregularity. effect merely on the ground of irregularity in the submission, or during the referer.ce, where such irregularity has not been sub- stantially prejudicial to the party applying against the award.
XI.-AFFIDAvit and other Evidence. Affidavits.
230. Every affidavit used in the Court must be either in English, Language. or in the usual and familiar language of the witness swearing it.
An affidavit in any language other than English must be accompanied by a sworn translation into English, procured by and at the expense of the person using the affidavit.
231. Every affidavit, sworn before any British judicial or Con- Form. sular officer in China or Japan, in the matter of any suit or other proceeding in Her Majesty's Court in China and Japan, must be headed in the Court, and in the suit or proceeding in which the affidavit is to be used.
It must state the full name, trade or profession, address, and nationality of the witness.
It may be in the first or in the third person, and may be Contents. divided into convenient paragraphs, numbered consecutively.
232. Every affidavit used in the Court must contain only a statement of facts and circumstances, to which the witness swears, either on his own personal knowledge, or from information which he believes to be true.
It must not contain any extraneous matter, by way of objection, prayer, or legal argument or conclusion; and every statement must be as brief and positive as may be consistent with proper fullness and with truth.
The matter of fact sworn to, whether in affirmation or denial, owledge of the witness, must be sworn to positively
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swears to his belief in any matter of fact, From any source other than his own personal set forth explicitly the facts and circumstances nd of his belief.
ne belief in the truth of the matter of fact sworn to un information received from another person, the name of .son must be stated, and such particulars must be given as e informant, and as to the time, place, and circumstances of the information, as may afford means to other parties to verify or contradict the same.
alterations, bad writing,
233. Where an affidavit is to be sworn before a British judicial Erasures, interlineatione or Consular officer in China or Japan, any erasure, interlineation, or alteration, made before the affidavit is sworn, shall be attested by the officer, who shall affix his signature or initials in the margin immediately opposite to the erasure, interlineation, or alteration.
Where there are many erasures, interlineations, or alterations, so that the affidavit proposed to be sworn is illegible, or difficult to read, or is in the judgment of the officer before whom it is proposed to be sworn so written as to give any facility for being added to or in any way fraudulently altered, he may refuse to take the affidavit in its existing form, and may require it to be re-written in a clear and legible and unobjectionable manner.
234. An affidavit sworn before any British judicial or Consular Before whom affidavits officer, authorized to take affidavits, before any Judge, Officer, or may be sworn.
other person in the United Kingdom, or in any British colony or possession, authorized to take affidavits, before any Mayor or other
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