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Secondary :;~J ttI "t' , S~condary cv~dence. Proof of documentsby primary evidence. Cases in which secondaryevi. dence relat. ing-to documents may begiven. E'vide1tae. ... l AC~ 1, .63. Secondary evidence means ~nd includes- (1.) Certified copie~ given "ander the provisions hereinafter contained; (2.) Copies made from the original by mechani. cal processes which in themselves insure the accu- racy of the copy, and copies compared )vith such copies; . (3.) ginal ; (4.) Counterparts of documents as against the parties who did not execute them; (5.) Oral accounts of the contents of a document given by some person who has himself seen it. Illustrations. (a.) A photograph of an original is secondary evidence of its contents, though the two have not been compared, if it is proved that the thing photographed was the original. > (b.) A copy compared with a copy of a letter made by a copying machine is secondary evidence of the contents of the letter, if it is shown that the copy made by the copying macbiue was made from the original. (c.) ,A copy transcribed from a copy, but afterwards compared with the original, is secondary evidence; but the copy not so . compartd is not secondary evidence of the original, although the. copy from which it was transcribed was compared with the original. (d.) Neither an oral account of a copy compared with the Ol.jgin~l, nor an oral account of a photograph or machine-copy of the original, is secondary evidence of the original.