DOCUMENTS  TO   BE   USED   AT  THE  HEARING.  201

Shaw  V.  Lawless,  22  Februaiy,  1837. — Petition  of  the  respondent  (the
appellant's  agent  consenting  thereto)  praying  that  all  such  official  copies  of
proceedings  and  other  docnments  referred  to  in  the  petition,  and  in  the
appellant's  printed  cases,  as  had  been  signed  by  the  agents  of  the  respectiye
parties,  might  be  read  at  the  hearing  without  evidence  of  their  haying
been  examined  with  the  originals.  This  petition  being  referred  to  the
Appeal  Committee,  they  reported  that,  with  the  exception  of  any  will
which  might  be  required  to  be  produced  in  the  cause,  and  such  other  docu-
ments as  upon  the  hearing  of  the  cause  the  House  might  think  fit  to  have
in  original,  such  other  of  the  several  documents  referred  to  as  had  been
ascertained  and  mutually  agreed -to  by  the  agents  of  the  parties  to  be  true
and  £uthiul  copies,  and  had  been  signed  by  them,  might  be  received  on  the
hearing  of  the  appeal  as  evidence  of  the  contents  of  the  documents  of
which  they  purported  to  be  such  copies,  without  further  proof  of  their  having
been  examined  with  the  originals  (**).
14  March. — The  original  will  in  question  delivered  in  upon  oath  by  the
officer  of  the  Prerogative  Court  in  Dublin.
The  following  case  throws  light  upon  the  duties  to  be
exacted  from  the  registrar  of  the  court  below,  when  an
appeal  is  taken  to  the  Lords.  It  appears,  he  is  bound,  at
the  request  of  either  party,  to  give  true  and  attested
copies  under  his  hand  of  the  minutes,  and  of  all  motions,
decrees,  and  orders,  made  in  the  cause ;  th:  parties  taking
office  copies,  with  a  view  to  an  appeal,  being  entitled
to  compare  such  office  copies  with  their  respective
originals.
