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Certified copies, every public officer having the custody of a public document, which any person has a right to inspect, shall give that person or demand a copy of it on payment of the legal fees therefor, together with a certificate written at the foot of such copy that it is a true copy of such document or part thereof, as the case may be, and such certificate shall be dated and subscribed by such officer with his name and his official title, and shall be sealed, whenever such officer is authorised by law to make use of a seal; and such copies so certified shall be called certificate copies (Indian Evidence Act, 1872, s. 76)...
Certified copy
Certified copy. As to when admissible in evidence, see Taylor on Evidence, and the Documentary Evidence Act, 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 37), as to certain official documents....
Copy
Copy [copia, Lat.], the transcript or double of an original writing; as the copy of a patent charter, deed, etc. As to when copies certified or examined are admissible in evidence, see Taylor on Evidence, ss. 1323 et seq.'Copy' means a copy which it substantially the same as the original variation if any from the original should not be vital in nature or should not be such that can possibly mislead a reasonable person in meeting to allegation. If the copy differs in martial particulars from the original the same cannot be cured after the period of limitation, Chandrakant Uttam Chodankar v. Dayanand Raju Mandrakar, (2005) 2 SCC 188.The word 'copy' in s. 419 means, a certified copy', State of Uttar Pradesh v. C. Tobit, AIR 1958 SC 414: 1958 SCR 1275. (Criminal Procedure Code, 1898, s. 419)--The word 'copy' in sub-s. (3) of s. 81 does not mean an absolutely exact copy, but means that the copy shall be so true that nobody can by any possibility misunderstand it, Murarka Redhey Shyam Ram Ku...
Secondary evidence
Secondary evidence, Secondary evidence means and includes:(1) Certified copies given under the provisions hereinafter contained;(2) Copies made from the original by mechanical processes which in themselves insure the accuracy of the copy, and copies compared with such copies;(3) Copies made from or compared with the original;(4) Counterparts of documents as against the parties who did not execute them;(5) Oral accounts of the contents of a document given by some person who has himself seen it. [Evidence Act, 1872 (1 of 1872), s. 63]That species of proof which is admitted on the loss of primary evidence. There are no degrees of this evidence; for example, if a letter be lost it may be as good as recite it from memory as to produce a copy. It is the province of the judge to decide whether a document produced be original or not, and until he decides it is not, no secondary evidence can be put in. See NOTICE TO ADMIT; NOTICE TO PRODUCE; HEARSAY....
Right to information
Right to information, means the right to informa-tion accessible under this Act which is held by or under the control of any public authority and includes the right to--(i) inspection of work, document, records;(ii) taking notes, extracts or certified copies of documents or records;(iii) taking certified samples of material;(iv) obtaining information in the from of diskettes, floppies, tapes, video cassettes or in any other electronic mode or through printouts where such information is stored in a computer or in any other device. [Right of Information Act, 2005, s. 2(j)]...
Births, Marriages, and Deaths
Births, Marriages, and Deaths. By the (English) Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1836 (6 & 7 Wm. 4, c. 86), amended by the (English) Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1837 (7 Wm. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 22), a General Register Office is provided for keeping a register of births, deaths, and marriages in England. The Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1874 [37 & 38 (English) Vict. c. 88], amends the laws relating to the Registration of Births and Deaths in England in important particulars, and consolidates the law relating to the registration of births and deaths at sea. This Act (s. 1) imposes upon the father and mother of a child, and in their default, upon the occupier of a house in which to his knowledge a child is born, the duty of giving information to the registrar within 42 days. By s. 10 a corresponding obligation to register a death is imposed upon relatives, etc.By s. 203 of the (English) Public Health Act, 1936, births of any child alive or dead after the twenty-eighth week of ...
extract
extract : a certified copy of a document that forms part of or is preserved in a public record ...
Attestation
Attestation, the signing by a witness to the signature of another of a statement that a document was signed in the presence of the witness. The (English) Criminal Procedure Act, 1865 (28 & 29 Vict. c. 18), s. 7 (applicable both to civil and criminal cases), renders it unnecessary to prove by the attesting witness any instrument to the validity of which attestation is not requisite, and such instrument may now be proved by admission, or otherwise, as if there had been no attesting witness. Wills and codicils (1 Vict. c. 26), warrants of attorney and cognovits (1 & 2 Vict. c. 110), agreements with crews of 'foreign-going' ships ((English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, s. 115), and bills of sale (see BILL OF SALE) require attestation.As to the attestation of deeds in execution of certain powers of appointment, see (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 159, replacing (English) Law of Property Amendment Act, 1859, s. 12.As to attestation by a justice of the peace of the enlistment of a rec...
Freedom of information
Freedom of information, means the right to obtain information from any public authority by means of:(i) inspection, taking of extracts and notes;(ii) certified copies of any records of such public authority;(iii) diskettes, floppies or in any other electronic mode or through printouts where such information is stored in a computer or in any other device. [Freedom of Information Act, 2002 (5 of 2003), s. 2(c)]...
bill
bill 1 : a draft of a law presented to a legislature for enactment ;also : the law itself [the GI ] ap·pro·pri·a·tions bill [ə-prō-prē-ā-shənz-] : a bill providing money for government expenses and programs NOTE: Appropriations bills originate in the House of Representatives. bill of attainder 1 : a legislative act formerly permitted that attainted a person and imposed a sentence of death without benefit of a judicial trial see also attainder compare bill of pains and penalties in this entry 2 : a legislative act that imposes any punishment on a named or implied individual or group without a trial NOTE: Bills of attainder are prohibited by Article I of the U.S. Constitution. bill of pains and penalties : a legislative act formerly permitted that imposed a punishment less severe than death without benefit of a judicial trial compare bill of attainder in this entry NOTE: The term bill of attainder is often used to include bills of p...
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