Code of Organization and Civil Procedure (Cap. 12)
Code of Organization and Civil Procedure (Cap. 12), article 682
682. In an appellate court, no reference may be ordered, except
in the following cases:
(a) where there was no reference made in the court below
and no express renunciation of such reference was
made;
(b) where the subject-matter of the reference is, wholly or
in part, different from that of the reference made in the
court below, or in respect of which there was a
renunciation;
(c) where the directions given to the referee by the court
below were, in the opinion of the appellate court,
defective or insufficient;
(d) where the appellate court is of opinion that the report
is not so complete as to enable it to decide the cause:
Provided that nothing in this article shall operate so as to ba r the
appellate court from requiring further elucidations from the
referees appointed by the court below.
Sub-title V
OF INSPECTION IN F ACIEM LOCI
Inspection in
faciem loci.
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