Acts and Regulations

E-11 - Evidence Act

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Effect of omissions from copy of public record
38In the proof of title from the Crown by an exemplification under the Great Seal, or by a certified or an examined copy, as is hereinbefore provided, and, without limitation by the foregoing words of this section, in any copy of any record, grant, letters patent, surrender, escheat, inquisition, lease, licence, conveyance, document or writing, or of any part of the same, admissible in evidence under section 36, it is not necessary to copy the conditions contained in such grant, letters patent, surrender, escheat, inquisition, lease, licence or conveyance, on the part of the grantees, lessees or licensees, their heirs or assigns, to be observed or performed, or any other clause in the said grant, letters patent, surrender, escheat, inquisition, lease, licence or conveyance that may not be pertinent or relevant to the matter in question; and no such exemplification, examined or certified copy shall be rejected in evidence on account of the omission of such clauses, if such omission does not prejudice the opposite party or affect the merits in question.
R.S., c.74, s.33