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Power to the Judges to make Regulations as to the Admission of written Documents.
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XV. ‘And whereas it is expedient to lessen the Expence of the Proof of written or printed Documents, or Copies thereof, on the Trial of Causes;’ be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the said Judges, or any such Eight or more of them as aforesaid, at any Time within Five Years after this Act shall take effect, to make Regulations by general Rules or Orders, from Time to Time, in Term or in Vacation, touching the voluntary Admission, upon an Application for that Purpose at a reasonable Time before the Trial, of one Party to the other of all such written or printed Documents or Copies of Documents as are intended to be offered in Evidence on the said Trial by the Party requiring such Admission, and touching the Inspection thereof before such Admission is made, and touching the Costs which may be incurred by the Proof of such Documents or Copies on the Trial of the Cause in case of the omitting to apply for such Admission, or the not producing of such Document or Copies for the Purpose of obtaining Admission thereof, or of the Refusal to make such Admission, as the Case may be, and as to the said Judges shall seem meet; and all such Rules and Orders shall be binding and obligatory in all Courts of Common Law, and of the like Force as if the Provisions therein contained had been expressly enacted by Parliament.
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