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Statenlents, written or verbal, of relevant facts made by a person who is dead, or who cannot be found, or who has become incapable of giving evi- dence, or whose attendance cannot be procured. with- out an amount of delay or expense which, under the circumstances of the case, appb~, ," to the Court un- reasonable, are themselves relevant - "+'s in the fol- lowing cases :- "'~-, , ~. ,', ' (1.) When the statement is made by ap~>~"\Tl as . to the cause of his death, or .as to any of th~ circ~;. it. . ~tance,s of. the t~~ansaction which resulted in his t~da~,'" :':\.. . In cases In whiCh the. cause of that person's ~<deatlt~~ -:.. comes into question. ' . ,: Such statements are relevant whether the person who made thmn was or was not, at the time when they were made, under expectation of death, and whatever may be the nature of the proceeding in which the cause of his death comes into question. (2.) When the statement was made by sucb 'per- son in, the ordinary course of business, and in p~i.ti~ cnlar ':'fhen it consists of any entr~Tor memorandum / made by him in books kept in the ordinary' course of "", business, or in the discharge of professional duty; or, of an acknowledgment written or signed by him < of thy.receipt of money, goods,securities or property" . of any kind; or of a document used in ;commerce written or signed by him, or of the date of ,a letter or o~her document usually dated, written or 'signed by lum. " (3.) ';,,;Whenthe stateme~t is against the pecuniary or prq,prietary interest of the person making it, or ; w11ell , ; ! ~ --' "Y '~ .. ~ -{9 .... 4 , . 't' '.!6 .. ---- - .".".-.- u ~'"