38 Evidence Cap 80 [2009] were so made or published and are accurate. (2) Maps or plans specially made for the purposes of any cause or other proceeding, civil or criminal, must be proved to be accurate. Laws and judicial reports. 90. The court shall presume the genuineness of every book purporting to be printed or published under the authority of the Government of any country and to contain any of the laws of that country, and of every book purporting to contain reports of decisions of the courts of any country. Powers of attorney. L.N. 22/1965. 91. The court shall presume that every document purporting to be a power of attorney, and to have been executed before and authenticated by a notary public or commissioner for oaths or any court, judge, magistrate, or Kenya consular officer or diplomatic agent, was so executed and authenticated. Certified copies of foreign judicial records. L.N. 22/1965. 92. The court may presume that any document purporting to be a copy of a judgment or judicial record of any country not forming part of the Commonwealth is genuine and accurate, and that such judgment or record was pronounced or recorded by a court of competent jurisdiction, if the document purports to be certified in any manner which is certified by a Kenya consular officer or diplomatic representative in or for such country to be the manner commonly in use in that country for the certification of copies of judgments or judicial records. Books, maps and charts. 93. The court may presume that any book, to which it may refer for information on matters of public or general interest, and that any published map or chart, the statements of which are admissible facts and which is produced for its inspection, was written and published by the person and at the time and place by whom or at which it purports to have been written or published. Telegraphic messages. 94. The court may presume that a message forwarded from a telegraph office to the person to whom such message purports to be addressed, corresponds with a message delivered for transmission at the office from which the message purports to be sent; but the court shall not make any presumption as to the person by whom such message was delivered for transmission. Presumption as to due execution, etc. 95. The court shall presume that every document called for and not produced after notice to produce was attested, stamped and executed in the manner required by the law. Documents twenty years old. 96. (1) Where any document purporting or proved to be not less than twenty years old is produced from any custody which the court in the particular case considers proper, the court may presume that www.kenyalaw.org

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