The court has power, independently of statute to compel the plaintiff to produce for the defendant’s inspection a document upon which the action is brought, where the defendant is a party to te document and has no copy of it.
Citations:
[1851] EngR 878, (1851) 7 Exch 67, (1851) 155 ER 859
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See Also – Bluck v Gompertz 7-Jun-1852
The defendant had signed an undertaking to procure the acceptance of two bills for andpound;200 and andpound;146 for wine supplied to an MP and agreed to see that they were duly paid. The latter draft should have been for andpound;150. The plaintiff . .
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Litigation Practice
Updated: 02 May 2022; Ref: scu.297194