52. Relevancy of statements as to any law contained in lawbooks. When the Court has to
form an opinion as to��a law of any country, any statement of such law contained in a book purporting
to be printed or published under the authority of the Government of such country and to contain any
such law, and any report of a ruling of the Courts of such country contained in a book purporting to
be a report of such rulings, is relevant.
HOW MUCH OF A STATEMENT IS TO BE PROVED
53. What evidence to be given when statement forms part of a conversation, document, book
or series of letters or papers. When any statement of which evidence is given forms part of a longer
statement, or of a conversation or part of an isolated document, or is contained in a document which
forms part of a book or of a connected series of letters or papers, evidence shall be given of so much
and no more of the statement, conversation, document, book or series of letters or papers as the Court
considers necessary in that particular case to the full understanding of the nature and effect of the
statement, and of the circumstances under which it was made.
JUDGMENTS OF COURTS OF JUSTICE WHEN RELEVANT
54. Previous judgments relevant to bar a second suit or trial. The existence of any judgment,
order or decree which by law prevents any Court from taking cognizance of a suit or holding a trial, is
a relevant fact when the question is whether such Court ought to take cognizance of such suit or to
hold such trial.
55. Relevancy of certain judgments in probate, etc., jurisdiction. A final judgment, order
or decree of a competent Court in the exercise of probate matrimonial, admiralty or insolvency
jurisdiction, which confers upon or takes away from any person any legal character, or which
declares any person to be entitled to any such character, or to be entitled to any specific thing, not
as against any specified person but absolutely, is relevant when the existence of any such legal
character, or the title of any such person to any such thing, is relevant.
Such judgment, order or decree is conclusive proof—
that any legal character which it confers accused, at the time when such judgment, order or
decree came into operation ;
that any legal character, to which it declares any such person to be entitled, accrued to that
person at the time when such judgment, order or decree declares it to have accrued to that person;
that any legal character which it takes away from any such person ceased at the time from which
such judgment, order or decree declared that it had ceased or should cease;
and that anything to which it declares any person to be so entitled was the property of that person
at the time from which such judgment, order or decree declares that it had been or should be his
property.
56. Relevancy and effect of judgments, orders or decrees, other than those mentioned in
Article 55. Judgments, orders or decrees other than those mentioned in Article 55 are relevant if they
relate to matters of a public nature relevant to the enquiry ; but such judgments, orders or decrees are
not conclusive proof of that which they state.
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