Title : Estoppel of Acceptor of Bill of Exchange, Bailee or Licensee
State : Central
Year : 1872
No acceptor of a bill of exchange shall be permitted to deny that the drawer had authority to draw such bill or to endorese it; nor shall any bailee or licensee be permitted to deny that his bailor or licensor had, at the time when the bailment or licence commenced, authority to make such bailment or grant such licence. Explanation 1.--The acceptor of a bill of exchange may deny that the bill was really drawn by the person by whom it purports to have been drawn. Explanation 2.--If a bailee delivers the goods bailed to a person other than the bailor, the may prove that such person had a right to them as against the bailor. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Who May Testify
State : Central
Year : 1872
All persons shall be competent to testify unless the Court considers that they are prevented from understanding the question put to them, or from giving rational answers to those questions, by tender years, extreme old age, disease, whether of body or mind, or any other cause of the same kind. Explanation.A lunatic is not incompetent to testify, unless he is prevented by his lunacy from understanding the questions put to him and giving rational answers to them. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Dumb Witnesses
State : Central
Year : 1872
A witness who is unable to speak may give his evidence in any other manner in which he can make it intelligible, as by writing or by signs; but such writing must be written and the signs made in open Court, Evidence so given shall be deemed to be oral evidence. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Parties to Civil Suit, and their Wives or Husbands. Husband or Wife of Person Under Criminal Trial
State : Central
Year : 1872
In all civil proceedings the parties to the suit, and the husband or wife of any party to the suit, shall be competent witnesses. In criminal proceedings against any person, the husband or wife of such person, respectively, shall be a competent witness. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Communications During Marriage
State : Central
Year : 1872
No person who is or has been married, shall be compelled to disclose any communication made to him during marriage by any person to whom he is or has been married; nor shall he be permitted to disclose any such communication, unless the person who made it, or his representative in interest, consents, except in suits between married persons, or proceedings in which one married person is prosecuted for any crime committed against the other. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Evidence as to Affairs of State
State : Central
Year : 1872
No one shall be permitted to give any evidence derived from unpublished official records relating to any affairs of State, except with the permission of the officer at the head of the department concerned, who shall give or withhold such permission as he thinks fit. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Official Communications
State : Central
Year : 1872
No public officer shall be compelled to disclose communications made to him in official confidence, when he considers that the public interest would suffer by the disclosure. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Confidential Communications with Legal Advisers
State : Central
Year : 1872
No one shall be compelled to disclose to the Court any confidential communication which has taken place between him and his legal professional adviser, unless he offers himself as a witness, in which case he may be compelled to disclose any such communications as may appear to the Court necessary to be known in order to explain any evidence which he has given, but no others. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Production of Title-deeds of Witness Not a Party
State : Central
Year : 1872
No witness who is not a party to a suit shall be compelled to produce his title-deeds to any property, or any document by virtue of which he holds a property as pledgee or mortgagee or any document the production of which might tend to criminate him, unless he has agreed in writing to produce them with the person seeking the production of such deeds or some person through whom he claims. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Witness Not Excused from Answering on Ground That Answer Will Criminate
State : Central
Year : 1872
A witness shall not be excused from answering any question as to any matter relevant to the matter in issue in any suit or in any civil or criminal proceeding, upon the ground that the answer to such question will criminate, or may lend directly or indirectly to criminate, such witness, or that it will expose, or tend directly or indirectly to expose, such witness to a penalty or forfeiture of any kind: Proviso.Provided that no such answer, which a witness shall be compelled to give, shall subject him to any arrest or prosecution, or be proved against him in any criminal proceeding, except a prosecution for giving false evidence by such answer. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section