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Books of
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Foreign Law.
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How divided.
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Information from others,
Erasures. Tn. terlineations,
c.
Before whom to be sworn.
In Foreign Parts.
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CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE-HONGKONG.
Documentary Evidenoe.
LV. Entries in books of account kept in the course of business with such a reasonable degree of regularity as shall be satisfactory to the Court, shall be admissible in evidence, whenever they refer to a matter into which the Court has to enquire, but shall not alone be sufficient evidence to charge any person with liability.
2.-The Hongkong Gazette and any Government Gazette of any coun- try, colony, or dependency under the dominion of the British Crown, may be proved by the bare pro luction thereof before the Court.
3.-All proclamations, acts of state, whether legislative or executive, nominations, appointments, and other official communications of the Gov- ernment, appearing in any such Gazette, may be proved by the production of such Gazette, and sh ll be prima facie proof of any fact of a public nature which they were intended to notity.
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 shall consider to be of authority on the subject to which they relate.
5.--Books print d or published under the authority of the govern ment 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.
6.--All maps made under the authority of any government, or of any public municipal boly, 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.
Affidavits.
LVI.-Every affidavit used iu the Court must be in the English language.
2.-It must be in the first person, and must be divided into paragraphs numbered consecutively.
3. Every affidavit used in the Count must contain only a statement of facts and circumstances as to which the witness swears, ei her on his own personal knowledge or from information which he believes to be true. 4.Where the belief in the truth of the matter of fact sworn to arises from information received from another person, the name of such person must be stated.
5. Where there are many erasures, interlinea'ions or alterations, so that the affidavit proposed t.. be sworn is illegible or difficult to real, or is, in the judgm nt of the officer b fore whom it is pro osd to be sworn, so written as to give any facility for being alde i to, or in any way fraudulently altered, he may refuse to take the affi lavit in its existing form, and may require it to be re-written in a cl ar an legib.e and unobjectionable manner.
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6. Any affidavit sworn 1efore any julge, officer, or other person in the United Kingdom or in any Bri ish colony, possession, er se tlement authorized to take affi lavi's, or b fore any commissioner duly author zed by th Supreme Court to tak affidavits in the United Kiag om or abroaì, be used in the Cour in a'l cas.s where affi lavi's are adm ssible. 7.-Ans affidavit sworn in any foreig. parts out of Her Majesty's dominions before a judge or magistrate, bei gauthenticated by the offici.I seal of the court t which he is attached or by a public notary, or before a British minister, consul, vi-e nsul, or consular ag nt, may be used in the Court in all cas. s where affidavits are admiss ble.
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