Article 187

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.

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.