Title : Primary Evidence
State : Central
Year : 1872
Primary evidence means the document itself produced for the inspection of the Court. Explanation 1.Where a document is executed in several parts, each part is primary evidence of the document: Where a document is executed in counterpart, each counterpart being executed by one or some of the parties only, each counterpart is primary evidence as against the parties executing it. Explanation 2.Where a number of documents are all made by one uniform process, as in the case of printing, lithography, or photography, each is primary evidence of the contents of the rest; but, where they are all copies of a common original, they are not primary evidence of the contents of the original. Illustration A person is shown to have been in possession of a number of placards, all printed at one..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Proof of Documents by Primary Evidence
State : Central
Year : 1872
Documents must be proved by primary evidence except in the cases hereinafter mentioned. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Proof of Signature and Handwriting of Person Alleged to Have Signed or Written Document Produced
State : Central
Year : 1872
If a document is alleged to be signed or to have been written wholly or in part by any person, the signature or the handwriting of so much of the document as is alleged to be in that person's handwriting must be proved to be in his handwriting. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Proof Where No Attesting Witness Found
State : Central
Year : 1872
If no such attesting witness can be found, or if the document purports to have been executed in the United Kingdom, it must be proved that the attestation of one attesting witness at least is in his handwriting, and that the signature of the person executing the documents is in the handwriting of that person. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Admission of Execution by Party to Attested Document
State : Central
Year : 1872
The admission of a party to an attested document of its execution by himself shall be sufficient proof of its execution as against him, though it be a document required by law to be attested. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Proof when Attesting Witness Denies the Execution
State : Central
Year : 1872
If the attesting witness denies or does not recollect the execution of the document, its execution may be proved by other evidence View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Proof of Document Not Required by Law to Be Attested
State : Central
Year : 1872
An attesting document not required by law to be attested may be proved as if it was unattested. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : 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 section