Title : Private Documents
State : Central
Year : 1872
All other documents are private. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Proof of Documents by Production of Certified Copies
State : Central
Year : 1872
Such certified copies may be produced in proof of the contents of the public documents or parts of the public documents of which they purport to be copies. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Presumption as to Documents Produced as Record of Evidence
State : Central
Year : 1872
Whenever any document is produced before any Court, purporting to be a record or memorandum of the evidence, or of any part of the evidence, given by a witness in a judicial proceedings or before any officer authorised by law to take such evidence or to be a statement or confession by any prisoner or accused person, taken in accordance with law, and purporting to be signed by any judge or Magistrate or by any such officer as aforesaid the Court shall presume-- that the document is genuine; that any statements as to the circumstances under which it was taken, purporting to be made by the person signing it, are true, and that such evidence, statement or confession was duly taken. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Presumption as to Document Admissible in England Without Proof of Seal or Signature
State : Central
Year : 1872
When any document is produced before any Court, purporting to be a document which, by the law in force for the time being in England or Ireland, would be admissible in proof of any particular in any Court of justice in England or Ireland, without proof of the seal or stamp or signature authenticating it, or of the judicial or official character claimed by the person by whom it purports to be signed, the Court shall presume that such seal, stamp or signature is genuine, and mat me person signing it held, at the lime when he signed it, the judicial or official character which he claims, and the document shall be admissible for the same purpose for which it would be admissible in England or Ireland . View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Presumption as to Collections of Laws and Reports of Decisions
State : Central
Year : 1872
The Court shall presume the genuineness of every book purporting to be printed or published under the authority of the Government of any country, and to contain any of the laws of that country, and of every book purporting to contain reports of decisions of the Courts of such country. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Presumption as to Books, Maps and Charts
State : Central
Year : 1872
The Court may presume that any book to which it may refer for information on matters of public or general interest, and that any published map or chart, the statements of which are relevant facts and which is produced for its inspection, was written and published by the person and at the time and place, by whom or at which it purports to have been written or published. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Presumption as to Telegraphic Messages
State : Central
Year : 1872
The Court may presume that a message, forwarded from a telegraph office to the person to whom such message purports to be addressed, corresponds with a message delivered for transmission at the office from which the message purports to be sent; but the Court shall not make any presumption as to the person by whom such message was delivered for transmission. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Presumption as to Due Execution, Etc. of Documents Not Produced
State : Central
Year : 1872
The Court shall presume that every document, called for and not produced after notice to produce, was attested, stamped and executed in the manner required by law. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Exclusion of Evidence to Explain or Amend Ambiguous Document
State : Central
Year : 1872
When the language used in a document is, on its face, ambiguous or defective, evidence may not be given of facts which would show its meaning or supply its defects. Illustrations (a) A agrees, in writing, to sell a horse of B for "Rs. 1,000 or Rs. 1,500". Evidence cannot be given to show which price was to be given. (b) A deed contains blanks. Evidence cannot be given of facts which would show how they were meant to be filled. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Exclusion of Evidence Against Application of Document to Existing Facts
State : Central
Year : 1872
When language used in a document is plain in itself, and when it applies accurately to existing facts, evidence may not be given to show that it was not meant to apply to such facts. Illustration A sells to B, by deed, "my estate at Rampur containing 100 bighas". A has an estate at Rampur containing 100 bighas. Evidence may not be given of the fact that the estate meant to be sold was one situated at a different place and of a different size. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section