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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.
Courts to take judicial notice of signature of judges, etc.
28. All courts, judges, magistrates, justices of the peace, officers of the courts, commissioners acting judicially, and other judicial officers shall take judicial notice of the signature of the judges, provided such signature is attached or appended to any judgment, decree, order, certificate, or other judicial or official document. 8 & 9 Vict. c. 113, s. 2.
PART III.
DEPOSITIONS.
29. Whenever it is proved by the oath of any credible witness, or in any other manner whatsoever it appears, to the satisfaction of the Supreme Court, that the Attorney General, or other person conducting a prosecution on behalf of the Crown, is unable to produce at the trial any person as a witness, in consequence of the death of such person, or of his absence from the Colony, or of the impracticability of serving process on him, or of his being so ill as not to be able to travel, or of his being insane, or of his being kept out of the way by means of the procurement of the person accused, or of his being resident in a country the laws of which prohibit his absenting himself therefrom, or which he refuses to quit after application made to him in that behalf or because he cannot be found at his last-known place of residence in the Colony; and if it also appears from the certificate of the magistrate or other officer hereinafter mentioned that such person was examined before a magistrate, or other officer to whom the cognizance of the offence appertained, and that the usual oath was administered to him prior to his examination, and that the examination was taken in the presence of the person accused, and that he, or his counsel or solicitor, had a full opportunity of cross-examining such person, and that the evidence so taken was reduced into writing and read over to and signed by him and
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EVIDENCE.
No. 2 of 1889.
301
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.
Courts to notice of take judicial
28. All courts, judges, magistrates, justices of the peace, officers of the courts, commissioners acting judicially, and other judicial officers shall take judicial notice of the signature of signature of the judges, provided such signature is attached or appended to 8 & 9 Vict.
judges, etc.
any judgment, decree, order, certificate, or other judicial or c. 113, s. 2. official document.
PART III.
DEPOSITIONS.
in criminal
of person
c. 42, s. 17.
29. Whenever it is proved by the oath of any credible Admissibility witness, or in any other manner whatsoever it appears, to the in evidence satisfaction of the Supreme Court, that the Attorney General, proceedings or other person conducting a prosecution on behalf of the of deposition Crown, is unable to produce at the trial any person as a witness, dead, etc. in consequence of the death of such person, or of his absence 11 & 12 Vict. from the Colony, or of the impracticability of serving process on him, or of his being so ill as not to be able to travel, or of his being insane, or of his being kept out of the way by means of the procurement of the person accused, or of his being resident in a country the laws of which prohibit his absenting himself therefrom, or which he refuses to quit after application made to him in that behalf or because he cannot be found at his last-known place of residence in the Colony; and if it also appears from the certificate of the magistrate or other officer hereinafter mentioned that such person was examined before a magistrate, or other officer to whom the cognizance of the offence appertained, and that the usual oath was administered to him prior to his examination, and that the examination was taken in the presence of the person accused, and that he, or his counsel or solicitor, had a full opportunity of cross- examining such person, and that the evidence so taken was reduced into writing and read over to and signed by him and
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