...from giving evidence either in person or by deposition, according to the practice of the court, on the trial of any issue joined, or of any matter or question on any inquiry arising in any suit, action, or proceeding, civil or criminal, in any court or before...

...certificate shall be admissible in evidence in any court of justice or before any person now or hereafter having by law or by consent of parties authority to hear, receive, or examine evidence, without proof of the signature thereto, or of the fact that the person signing...

...that the stat. 14 & 15 Viet. c". 99, does not apply. The 2nd section of the statute provides that " on the trial of any issue joined, or of any matter or...or on any inquiry arising in any suit, action, or other proceeding in any court of justice, or before any person having by law or by consent of parties...

...repeals the proviso in sect. 1 of 6 & 7 Viet. c. 85 ; and it is enacted by the second section, " on the trial of any issue joined, or of any matter or...question, or on any inquiry arising in any suit, action or other proceeding in any Court of justice, or hefore any person 'having by law, or by consent of partics,...

...witnesses for the defence. The 6 & 7 Viet. c. 85, prevents the exclusion of witnesses on the trial of any matter or question, or on any inquiry arising in any proceeding, civil or criminal, in any court, on the ground of interest (further extended to the parties...

...statute, however, clears away all the remaining disqualifications upon this subject, and enacts— That on the trial of any issue joined, or of any matter or...question, or on any inquiry arising in any suit, action or other proceeding in any court of justice, or before any person having by law or by consent of parties...

...609. ' 1C <fe 17 Viet. , c. 83. The first four sections of the Act are as follows : — § 1. " On the trial of any issue joined, or of any matter or question ot on any inquiry arising in any suit, action, or other proceeding in any court of justice, or before...

...Certificate shall be admissible in Evidence in any Court of Justice or before any Person now or hereafter having by Law or by Consent of Parties Authority to hear, receive, or examine Evidence, Evidence, without Proof of the Signature thereto, or of the Fact that the Person...

...hereafter be admissible in evidence in any court of justice, or before any person now or hereafter having by law or by consent of parties authority to hear, receive or examine evidence in every case in which the original of or from which any such copy or extract shall...

...Certificate shall be admissible in Evidence in any Court of Justice or before any Person now or hereafter having by Law or by Consent of Parties Authority to hear, receive, or examine Evidence, without Proof of the Signature thereto, or of the Fact that the Person signing...