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Books to be kept by officers for entering particulars of service of process.
Books to be evidence in case of death, &c. of officer.
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19. A book or books shall be kept by every officer appointed for the service of process, in such form as shall be directed or approved by the assistant barrister, in which shall be entered the names of the plaintiff and defendant by or against whom any process shall be issued, the cause of action, the day on which such process shall be received to be served, the day on which such process shall be served or executed, the place where and the name or description of the person on or with whom such process shall be served or left; and in case any such process shall not have been duly served or left, then the cause of such service not having been effected shall be stated; and each and every process officer shall attend, and produce such book or boooks to the assistant barrister, at each and every sessions of the peace, or shall cause such book or books to be produced to such barrister in case of the unavoidable absence of such process officer; and in case of death, illness, or such absence as aforesaid of any such process officer, the book or books of such process officer, kept by him as aforesaid, verified on oath as to his handwriting by some credible person, shall be produced at the sessions, and shall there be primâ facie evidence of the truth of the several matters entered therein as aforesaid.
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