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Indian Evidence Act, 1872 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1872

.....appears from the context- "Court"- includes all Judges and Magistrates, and all persons, except arbitrators, legally authorized to take evidence. "Fact" " "Fact" means and includes- (1) any thing, state of things, or relation of things, capable of being perceived by the sense; (2) any mental condition of which any person is conscious. Illustrations (a) That there are certain objects arranged in a certain order in a certain place, is a fact. (b) That a man heard or saw something is a fact. (c) That a man said certain words is a fact. (d) That a man holds a certain opinion, has a certain intention, acts in goods faith or fraudulently, or uses a particular word in a particular sense, or is or was at a specified time conscious of a particulars sensation, is a fact. (e) That a man has a certain reputation is a fact. "Relevant" " One fact is said to be relevant to another when the one is connected with the other in any of the ways referred to in the provisions of this Act relating to the relevancy of facts. "Facts in issue" " The expression "facts in issue" means and includes " any fact from which, either by itself or in connection with other facts, the existence, non-existence,.....

Indian Evidence Act 1872 Part 2

Title: On Proof

State: Central

Year: 1872

Chapter 3 - FACTS WHICH NEED NOT BE PROVED Section 56 - Fact judicially noticeable need not be proved No fact of which the Court will take judicial notice need to be proved. Section 57 - Facts of which Court must take judicial notice The Court shall take judicial notice of the following facts:- 1 [(1) All laws in force in the territory of India;] (2) All public Acts passed or hereafter to be passed by Parliament 1 [of the United Kingdom] and all local and personal Acts directed by Parliament 2 [of the United Kingdom] to be judicially noticed; (3) Articles of War for 3 [the Indian] Army 4 [Navy or Air Force]; 5 [(4) The course of proceeding of Parliament of the United Kingdom, of the Constituent Assembly of India, of Parliament and of the legislatures established under any law for the time being in force in a Province or in the States;] (5) The accession and the sign manual of the Sovereign for the time being of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; (6) All seals of which English Courts take judicial notice : the seals of all the 6 [Courts in 7 [India] and all Courts out of 5 [India] established by the authority of 8 [the Central Government or the.....

Indian Evidence Act 1872 Chapter 5

Title: Of Documentary Evidence

State: Central

Year: 1872

.....given in evidence2; (g) when the original consists of numerous accounts or other documents which cannot conveniently be examined in Court and the fact to be proved is the general result of the whole collection. In cases (a), (c) and (d), any secondary evidence of the contents of the document is admissible. In case (b), the written admission is admissible. In case (e) or (f), a certified copy of the document, but no other kind of secondary evidence, is admissible. In case (g), evidence may be given as to the general result of the documents by any person who has examined them, and who is skilled in the examination of such documents. ________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 3 of 1951, section 3 and Schedule, for "the States". 2. Cf. the Bankers' Books Evidence Act, 1891 (18 of 1891), section 4. Section 65A - Special provisions as to evidence relating to electronic record 1 [65A. Special provisions as to evidence relating to electronic record The contents of electronic records may be proved in accordance with the provisions of section 65B (w.e.f. 17-10-2000). ________________________ 1. Inserted by Act 21 of 2000, section 92 and.....

Indian Evidence Act 1872 Section 71

Title: 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

Indian Evidence Act 1872 Part 3

Title: Production and Effect of Evidence

State: Central

Year: 1872

.....PROOF Section 101 - Burden of proof Whoever desires any Court to give judgment as to any legal right or liability dependent on the existence of facts which he asserts, must prove that those facts exist. When a person is bound to prove the existence of any fact, it is said that the burden of proof lies on that person. Illustrations (a) A desires a Court to give judgment that B shall be punished for a crime which A says B has committed. A must prove that B has committed the crime. (b) A desires a Court to give judgment that he is entitled to certain land in the possession of B, by reason of facts which he asserts, and which B denies, to be true. A must prove the existence of those facts. Section 102 - On whom burden of proof lies The burden of proof in a suit or proceeding lies on that person who would fail if no evidence at all were given on either side. Illustrations (a) A sues B for land of which B is in possession, and which, as A asserts, was left to A by the will of C, B's father. If no evidence were given on either side, B would be entitled to retain his possession. Therefore the burden of proof is on A. (b) A sues B for money due on a bond. .....

Indian Evidence Act 1872 Chapter 10

Title: Of the Examination of Witnesses

State: Central

Year: 1872

.....the discretion of the Court. Section 136 - Judge to decide as to admissibility of evidence When either party proposes to give evidence of any fact, the Judge may ask the party proposing to give the evidence in what manner the alleged fact, if proved, would be relevant; and the Judge shall admit the evidence if he thinks that the fact, if proved, would be relevant, and not otherwise. If the fact proposed to be proved is one of which evidence is admissible only upon proof of some other fact, such last-mentioned fact must be proved before evidence is given of the fact first mentioned, unless the party undertakes to give proof of such fact, and the Court is satisfied with such undertaking. If the relevancy of one alleged fact depends upon another alleged fact being first proved, the Judge may, in his discretion, either permit evidence of the first fact to be given before the second fact is proved, or require evidence to be given of the second fact before evidence is given of the first fact. Illustrations (a) It is proposed to prove a statement about a relevant fact by a person alleged to be dead, which statement is relevant under section 32. The fact that the person.....

Indian Evidence Act 1872 Section 160

Title: Testimony to Facts Stated in Document Mentioned in Section 159

State: Central

Year: 1872

A witness may also testify to facts mentioned in any such document as is mentioned in section 159, although he has no specific recollection of the facts themselves, if he is sure that the facts were correctly recorded in the document. Illustration A book-keeper may testify to facts recorded by him in books regularly kept in the course of business, if he knows that the books were correctly kept, although he has forgotten the particular transaction entered.