The Court shall presume upon the production of any document purporting to be a certified copy of a foreign judgment, that such judgment was pronounced by a Court of competent jurisdiction, unless the contrary appears on the record; but such presumption may be displaced by proving want of jurisdiction.
PART I SUITS IN GENERAL · JURISDICTION OF THE COURTS AND Res Judicata
Section 14: Presumption as to foreign judgments
The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908
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1. On production of a document purporting to be a certified copy of a foreign judgment, Section 14 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 requires the Court to presume, unless the contrary appears on the record, that the judgment was: