119. Section 773 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following new section substituted therefor: -
| 773. Upon hearing the appeal, it shall be competent to the Supreme Court to affirm, reverse, correct or modify any judgment, decree, or order, according to law, or to pass such judgment, decree or order therein between and as regards the parties, or to give such direction to the court below, or to order a new trial or a further hearing upon such terms as the Supreme Court shall think fit, or, if need be, to receive and admit new evidence additional to, or supplementary of, the evidence already taken in the court of first instance, touching the matters at issue in any original cause, suit or action, as justice may require or to order a new or further trial on the ground of discovery of fresh evidence subsequent to the trial.". |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts