Court : Sri Lanka Supreme Court
..... 2 of the said ordinance, the term power of attorneyis defined so as to include any written power or authority other than that given to an attorney-at law or law agent, given by one person to another to perform any work, do any act, or carry on any trade or business, and executed before two witnesses, or executed before or attested by a notary public or by a justice of the peace, registrar, deputy registrar, or by any judge or magistrate, or ambassador, high commissioner or other ..... court refused to rely on a document purporting to be a true copyof the original power of attorney, which had been copied by a registering officer in a book kept under the indian registration act, 1908, and held that this was not in itself sufficient to establish the fact of execution of the original power of attorney. ..... certain preliminary matters before dealing with the substantive questions on which special leave to appeal has been granted by this court, all of which relate to the title of the contending parties to the land described in the schedule to the petition of the respondents, it is necessary to dispose of the two preliminary questions 3 and 4 raised by learned presidents counsel for the ..... for the proof of documents are contained in chapter 5 of the evidence ordinance no. ..... by the advocate is mentioned in the rubber stamp, and one may presume that it is on the basis of such identification that the magistrate proceeded to put the rubber stamp. ..... paulu silva (1899) 4 ..... sinnetamby [1899] 1 .....
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