Skip to content
Back to the text

Evidence Act · s 38

Suggest a correction

Tell us what is wrong in this text. We check every suggestion against the official version before we change anything.

What is wrong?

The text as we hold it

Open the official text

s 38

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.

Evidence 42

How much of a statement is to be proved

What evidence to be given when statement forms part of conversation, document, book or series of letters or papers.