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Prhllary evidence means the document itself Primary8"'11- l)roduced for the inspection of the Court. donee. Bxplctnation I.-Where a document is executed in several parts, each part is prin1ary evidence' of thq document: Where a dOCU1TIentis executed in counterpart, each counterpart being executed by one or sorne of ~hc parties only, each counterpart is primary evidence .,as against the parties executing it. ' Explanation 2.-Where a number of documents >-- arc all made by one uniform process, as in the case \ of printing, lithography, or photography, each is pri- mary evidence of the contents of the rest; but vvhere they are all copies of a COlllmon original, they are not primary evidence of the contents of the original. ]ZZ~t8tratio7Z. A person is shown to have been in possession of a number of ; 'placards, all pl~illtedat one time from one original. AllY on0 of the placards is primary evidenceof the contents of any othcr, hut no one of them is primary evidence of the contents of the ol'igirlal.