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\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid8544980 [}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid1791839\charrsid8544980 1905] 2 Ch. 538; [1904}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid9900748 -7}{
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 (1824), M'Cle. 73; }{\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid1791839\charrsid8544980 R. v. Hodgson}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid1791839\charrsid8544980  (1856), Dears. & B. 3; }{
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\par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid1791839\charrsid8544980 . . . All courts, judges, justices, masters in chancery, masters of courts, commissioners judicially acting, and other judicial officers, shall henceforth take jud
icial notice of the signature of any of the equity or common law judges of the superior courts at Westminster, provided such signature be attached or appended to any decree, order, certificate, or other judicial or official document.
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\par }{\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid1791839\charrsid8544980 Superior courts at Westminster}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid10620551 . The jurisdiction o}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid1791839\charrsid8544980 
f these courts is now transferred to the High Court and Court }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid10620551 o}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid1791839\charrsid8544980 f Appeal; see the Supreme Court }{
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\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid1791839\charrsid8544980 . Documents authorising cr}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7028493\charrsid8544980 iminal proceedings purporting to be signed by the Director o}{
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r the Attorney General are admissible as }{\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5970995\charrsid5970995 p}{\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid1791839\charrsid5970995 rima facie}{
\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid1791839\charrsid8544980  evidence without further proof; see the Criminal Justice Act 1925, s. 34, Vol. 21, title Magistrates.
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nters to the crown or by the printers to either House of Parliament, or by any or either of them, shall be admitted as evidence thereof by all courts, judges, justices, and others without any proof being given that such copies were so printed.
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\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid1791839\charrsid8544980 , V}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid5256421 ol.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid1791839\charrsid8544980  32, title Statutes).
\par See also the Documentary Evidence Act 1882, s. 2, p. 852, }{\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid1791839\charrsid8544980 post.
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\par }{\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid1791839\charrsid8544980 4. Persons forging seal, stamp, or signature of certain documents, or printing any private Act, etc., with false purport, guilty of f
elony - Documents received in evidence under this Act may be impounded until further order, at request of party against whom admitted, etc.
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\par Provided always . . . that . . . if any person shall print any copy of any private Act or of the journals of either
 House of Parliament, which copy shall falsely purport to have been printed by the printers to the crown, or by the printers to either House of Parliament, or by any or either of them, or if any person shall tender in evidence any such copy, knowing that 
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he same was not printed by the person or persons by whom it so purports to have been printed, every such person shall be guilty of felony, and shall upon conviction be liable to transportation for seven years . . . Provided also, that whenever any such do
c
ument as before mentioned shall have been received in evidence by virtue of this Act, the court, judge, commissioner, or other person officiating judicially who shall have admitted the same shall, on the request of any party against whom the same is so re
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eived, be authorized, at its or at his own discretion, to direct that the same shall be impounded, and be kept in the custody of some officer of the court or other proper person, until further order touching the same shall be given, either by such court, 
o}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7947831 r the court to w}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid1791839\charrsid8544980 
hich such master or other officer belonged, or by the persons or person who constituted such court, or by some one of the equity or common law judges of the superior courts at Westminster, on application being made for that purpose.
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\par }{\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid1791839\charrsid8544980 NOTES
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The words omitted were repealed by the S.L.R. Act 1891, the S.L.R. (No. 2) Act 1893, and the Forgery Act 1913, s. 2}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid8544980 0}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid1791839\charrsid8544980 
 and Schedule, Part }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7947831 I}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid1791839\charrsid8544980  (see now the last}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7947831 -}{
\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid1791839\charrsid8544980 mentioned Act, Vol. 8, p. 257).
\par }{\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid1791839\charrsid8544980 Superior courts at Westminster}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid1791839\charrsid8544980 . See the note to s. 2,}{
\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid1791839\charrsid8544980  ante.
\par }{\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid1791839\charrsid8544980 Abolition of transportation}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid1791839\charrsid8544980 
. Penal servitude was substituted for "transportation" by the Penal Servitude Act 1857, s. 2, Vol. 25, title Prisons, and by the}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7947831  Criminal Justice Act 1948, s. 1, Vol. 8, p. 339,}{
\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid1791839\charrsid8544980  and the Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1953, s. 1 (not printed i}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid8544980 n}{
\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid1791839\charrsid8544980  this work), imprisonment was substituted for penal servitude.
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\par }{\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid1791839\charrsid8544980 5. Extent of Act
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\par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid1791839\charrsid8544980 .}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7947831  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid1791839\charrsid8544980 .}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7947831  }{
\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid1791839\charrsid8544980 . This Act shall not extend to Scotland.
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\par }{\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid1791839\charrsid8544980 NOTE
\par }\pard \ql \li720\ri0\widctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin720\itap0\pararsid8544980 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid1791839\charrsid8544980 The words omitted were repealed by the S.L.R. Act 1891.
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\par }{\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid1791839\charrsid8544980 6, 7}{\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid1791839\charrsid7947831 .}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid1791839\charrsid8544980  }{
\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid1791839\charrsid8544980 (Rep. by the S.L.R. Act 1875.)}{\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid1791839 
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