77(1)All judgments, decrees, orders, and other judicial proceedings of any court of justice in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland as at present constituted or any former kingdom that included England whether known as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland or otherwise, or in any present, future or pre-existing foreign state, or in Canada or in any Province of Canada, or in any present, past or future British colony, and all affidavits, pleadings and other documents whether legal or otherwise, filed or deposited in any such court, may be proved in any court either by examined copies or by copies authenticated as hereinafter mentioned that is to say, the authenticated copy being admissible in evidence must either

77(2)If any of the aforesaid authenticated copies purport to be sealed or signed as hereinbefore respectively directed, the same shall respectively be admitted in evidence in every case in which the original document could have been received in evidence without proof of the seal, where a seal is attached, or of the truth of the statement attached thereto or thereon where no seal is attached, and without proof of the signature or the judicial character of the person purporting to have signed the statement where no seal is attached.