[2009] Evidence Cap 80 21 Part VII - Extent to which Statement is Admissible 42. When any statement of which evidence is given forms part of a longer statement, or of a conversation, or of an isolated document, or Extent of admissibility. is contained in a document which forms part of a book or of a connected series of letters or papers, evidence shall be given of so much and no more of such longer statement, or of such conversation, document, book or series, as the court considers necessary in the particular case to a full understanding of the nature and effect of the statement, and of the circumstances in which it was made. Part VIII - Judgments 43. The existence of any judgment, order or decree which by law Judgments, prevents any court from taking cognizance of a suit or holding a trial, etc., excluding may be proved when the question is whether such court ought to take jurisdiction. cognizance of such suit or to hold such trial. 44. (1) A final judgment, order or decree of a competent court Judgments in rem. which confers upon or takes away from any person any legal character, or which declares any person to be entitled to any such character, or to be entitled to any specific thing, not as against any specified person but absolutely, is admissible when the existence of any such legal character, or the title of any such person to any such thing, is admissible. (2) Such judgment, order or decree is conclusive proof (a) that any legal character which it confers accrued at the time when such judgment, order or decree came into operation; (b) that any legal character to which it declares any such person to be entitled accrued to that person at the time when such judgment, order or decree declares it to have accrued to that person; (c) that any legal character which it takes away from any such person ceased at the time from which such judgment, order or decree declared that it had ceased or should cease; (d) that anything to which it declares any person to be so entitled was the property of that person at the time from which such judgment, order or decree declares that it had been or should be his property. 45. Judgments, orders or decrees, other than those mentioned in Other judgments of a section 44, are admissible if they relate to matters of a public nature public nature. relevant to the inquiry, but such judgments, orders or decrees are not www.kenyalaw.org