sion of the deposition. When the deposition extends over more than one page, each page should be subscribed by the person examined (if he can write), and by the commissioner and clerk. When any deposition is taken on a separate paper, to await the orders of court on an objection to the witness, or to any question put to him, the separate part must be signed as usual and sealed up, and the paper which incloses it should bear a docquet as in this form, "Deposition of Y Z, referred to in report of the commission in the action between CD and E F. "A B, Commr.
"L M, Clerk. Depositions taken to lie in retentis should also be sealed up and docqueted in a similar manner.
The Numbers refer to the Sections.
ACCEPTANCE of deeds may be express
or implied, 984; how express acceptance
is proved, 985; how implied is proved, ib.;
acceptance necessary to make a deed ef-
fectual as against grantee, 986; not as
against granter, ib.
of offer as to heritage must be in
writing, 546; how acceptance proved
where offer relates to moveables, 555.
of Bills. See Bill, Presumption.
ACCOMPLICE, evidence of, 1694. See
Witness.
ACCOUNTS, prescription of merchants',
476. See Prescription. Evidence af-
forded by account books, 1179. See
Books.
ACCOUNTANTS, remits to, in questions
of accounting, 2004; when their reports
under remit are final, ib.
ACCOUNTING-in what circumstances
it is presumed, 620.
ACQUIESCENCE-how the presump-
tions springing from acquiescence may
affect the burden of proof, 13; when ad-
missions and confessions implied from
acquiescence, 1479.
ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. Difference
between rules of evidence applicable to
public, private, and local and personal
Acts, 1052; Public Acts presumed to be
known, and need not be given in evi-
dence, ib. Local and Personal Acts
which do not provide that they are to
be taken as Public Acts, ib.; rules on
this point under 13th and 14th Vict.,
cap. 21, 7, ib.; Private Acts, printed
and unprinted, how proved, ib.; errors
in printed acts how proved, 1053; Fo-
reign Statutes, how proved, 1054; what
matters Acts of Parliament are admit-
ted to prove, 1055; matters as to which
they may be contradicted, ib.; construc-
tion of ancient acts may be explained by
contemporaneous usage, 227; meaning
of Statutes cannot be modified by refer
ence to the bills, 158; or to discussions
in Parliament when they were passed,
ib.; Recitals in Private Acts, 1055,
note 3.
ADMISSIONS AND
CONFESSIONS-
Admissions on record, 1386-1392; how
far conclusive proof, 1386; conclusive in
cases of prescription, 408. See Prescrip
tion. Effect of Admissions prefixed to
the issue, 1387; of admissions in joint
case, ib.; in minute of admissions, ib.;
in argumentative papers, 1388; effect of
non-denial of statement made by op-
posite party, 1389; when a party may
plead "not admitted," ib.; admissions
retracted in subsequent pleadings, 1390;
can a party found on admissions con-
tained in passages expunged by order of
the Court? ib.
on record in consistorial causes,
1391. They do not obviate necessity
for proof, ib.
Plea of guilty by prisoner in open
Court, 1393; confession in declaration
cannot be used as plea of guilty, ib.,
1430.
in judicial examination, 1403. See
Examination.
in prisoner's declaration, 1405. See
Declaration.
Judicial admission made in one
cause used as evidence in another, 1434;
when it is made in judicial examination.
ib.; in oath on reference, ib.; in other
oaths, ib.; in prisoner's declaration, 1435;
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