{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015:article:187","workId":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015:en","title":"Failure to Produce Evidence","number":"187","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/187/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK III — SERVICE, PLEADINGS AND EVIDENCE","title":"TITLE II — PLEADINGS","chapter":"Chapter 3. — First Hearing"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"p1","number":"1","text":"Where evidence which should have been produced is not so produced due to the fault of either party, the court may at once pronounce judgment or may, for good cause to be recorded, adjourn the hearing on such terms as to costs or otherwise as it thinks fit.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/187/#p1","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-procedure-code-2015-en","pdfPage":115,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-procedure-code-2015/page/115/?article=187&paragraph=p1#article-187-p1"}]},{"id":"p2","number":"2","text":"Where a suit is founded upon a negotiable instrument and it is proved that the instrument is lost, and a security is given by the plaintiff, to the satisfaction of the court, against the claims of any other person upon such instrument, the court may at once pronounce such judgment as it would have pronounced if the instrument had been produced.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/187/#p2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-procedure-code-2015-en","pdfPage":115,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-procedure-code-2015/page/115/?article=187&paragraph=p2#article-187-p2"}]}],"caution":"This is the English-language edition published in 2015 and attributed in its front matter to the Ministry of Justice. Refworld labels it an unofficial translation. Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation, later changes, or whether the text is currently in force."}