444. The depositions are retained by the clerk, for use in the expected legal proceeding for which they have been taken. When such proceeding is instituted, any party may ask that the depositions be filed in the record; but if the witnesses so heard can then be produced any party may ask that they be examined anew.
1965 (1st sess.), c. 80, a. 444; 1992, c. 57, s. 420.