Segu Mohamadu V. Kadiravail Cangany

 

 

[FULL BENCH.]

 

Present: The  Hon.   Sir Joseph  T.  Hutchinson,  Chief Justice,

Mr. Justice Wood Renton,  and Mr. Justice Grenier.

 

SEGU   MOHAMADU v. KADIRAVAIL   CANGANY.

 

D. C. Badulla, 2,145.

 

Oaths Ordinance (No. 9 of 1895), s. 9 (2)-Record of evidence by person appointed to administer oath-Report that oath had been administered according to order-Prima facie evidence-Sufficiency-Objection.
 
    The defendant in an action consented to judgment being entered against him, if the plaintiff and certain of his (plaintiff's) witnesses would swear in the mosque to the truth of certain statements. The District Judge recorded the statement, and it was signed by both parties. The Interpreter of the Court was appointed to administer the oath, and he reported that " this day at 3 P.M., in terms of the order in the above case, I administered oath to the parties concerned in the presence of one another and in the presence of the officiating priest." On the day appointed for the parties to appear the defendant did not take any objection to the report as being insufficient, and judgment was entered for plaintiff.
 

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