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Lost document. The ordinary rule is that a document is proved by the production of the original, but on proof that a document has been destroyed, or cannot be found after a proper search made, it may be proved by the 'secondary evidence' of a copy or by oral evidence of its contents. See Powell on Evidence; and as to the case of a lost will, see Woodward v. Goulstone, (1886) 11 App Cas 469. (Indian Evidence Act, 1872, s. 65).