Title : Facts Bearing Upon Opinions of Experts
State : Central
Year : 1872
Facts, not otherwise relevant, are relevant if they support or are inconsistent with the opinion of experts, when such opinions are relevant. Illustrations (a) The question is, whether A was poisoned by a certain poison. The fact that other persons, who were poisoned by that person, exhibited certain symptoms which experts affirm or deny to be the symptoms of that poison, is relevant. (b) The question is, whether an obstruction to a harbour is caused by a certain seawall. The fact that other harbours similarly situated in other respects, but where there were no such sea-walls began to be obstructed at about the same time, is relevant. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Opinion as to Handwriting, when Relevant
State : Central
Year : 1872
When the Court has to form an opinion as to the person by whom any document was written or signed, the opinion of any person acquainted with the handwriting of the person by whom it is supposed to be written or signed that it was or was not written or signed by that person, is a relevant fact. Explanation.-A person is said to be acquainted with the handwriting of another person when he has seen that person write, or when he has received documents purporting to be written by that person in answer to documents written by himself or under his authority and addressed to that person, or when, in the ordinary course of business, documents purporting to be written by that person have been habitually submitted to him. Illustration The question is, whether a given letter is in the..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Opinion as to Usages, Tenets, Etc., when Relevant
State : Central
Year : 1872
When the Court has to form an opinion as to the usages and tenets of any body of men or family, the constitution and government of any religious or charitable foundation, or the meaning of words or terms used in particular districts or by particular classes of people, the opinions of persons having special means of knowledge thereon, are relevant facts. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Grounds of Opinion, when Relevant
State : Central
Year : 1872
Whenever the opinion of any living person is relevant, the grounds on which such opinion is based are also relevant. Illustration An expert may give an account of experiments performed by him for the purpose of forming his opinion. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : In Civil Cases Character to Prove Conduct Imputed, Irrelevant
State : Central
Year : 1872
In civil cases, the fad that the character of any person concerned is such as to render probable or improbable any conduct imputed to him, is irrelevant, except in so far as such character appears from facts otherwise relevant. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : In Criminal Cases, Previous Good Character Relevant
State : Central
Year : 1872
In criminal proceedings, the fact that the person accused is of a good character, is relevant. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Fact Judicially Noticeable Need Not Be Proved
State : Central
Year : 1872
No fact of which the Court will take judicial notice need to be proved. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Facts Admitted Need Not Be Proved
State : Central
Year : 1872
No fact need to be proved in any proceeding which the parties thereto or their agents agree to admit at the hearing, or which, before the hearing, they agree to admit by any writing under their hands, or which by any rule of pleading in force at the time they are deemed to have admitted by their pleadings: Provided that the court may, in its discretion, require the facts admitted to be proved otherwise than by such admission. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Oral Evidence Must Be Direct
State : Central
Year : 1872
Oral evidence must, in all cases whatever, be direct; that is to say-- If it refers to a fact which could be seen, it must be the evidence of a witness who says he saw it; If it refers to a fact which could be heard, it must be the evidence of a witness who says he heard it; If it refers to a fact which could be perceived by any other sense or in any other manner, it must be the evidence of a witness who says he perceived it by that senseor in that manner; If it refers to an opinion or to the grounds on which that opinion is held, it must be the evidence of the person who holds that opinion on those grounds: Provided that the opinions of experts expressed in any treatise commonly offered for sate, and the grounds on which such opinions are held, may be proved by the production..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Proof of Contents of Documents
State : Central
Year : 1872
The contents of documents may be proved either by primary or by secondary evidence. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section