118. Section 770 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following new section substituted therefor:-
| 770. If, at the hearing of the appeal, the respondent is not present and the court is not satisfied upon the material in the record or upon other evidence that the notice of appeal was duly served upon him or his registered attorney as herein before provided, or if it appears to the court at such hearing that any person who was a party to the action in the court against whose decree the appeal is made, but who has not been made a party to the appeal, the court may issue the requisite notice of appeal for service.". |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts