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Document, includes part of a document. [Official Secrets Act, 1923 (19 of 1923), s. 2 (3)]The meaning of the document or of a particular part of it is therefore to be sought for in the document itself. That is, undoubtedly, the primary rule of construction to which ss. 90 to 94 of the Indian Evidence Act give statutory recognition and effect, with certain exceptions contained in ss. 95 to 98 of the Act. Of course, 'the document' means 'the document' read as a whole and not piecemeal, Delhi Development Authority v. Durga Chand Kaushish, (1973) 2 SCC 825: AIR 1973 SC 2609: (1974) 1 SCR 535.Document shall include any matter written, expressed or described upon any substance by means of letters, figures or marks, or by more than one of those means which is intended to be used, or which may be used, for the purpose of recording that matter. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1987), s. 3(18)]...


Making a false document

Making a false document, A person is said to make a false document-who dishonestly or fraudulently makes, signs, seals or executes a document with the intention of causing it to be believed that such document was made, signed or sealed by a competent authority or who without lawful authority, dishonestly or fraudulently, by cancellation or otherwise, alters a document in any material part thereof or who dishonestly or fraudulently causes any person to sign, seal or execute or alter a document knowing that such person by reason of unsoundness of mind or intoxication cannot or by reason of deception does not know the nature of the document or the nature of alteration [Indian Penal Code, s. 464]...


Document of title to goods

Document of title to goods, includes a bill of lading, dock-warrant, warehouse keeper's certificate, wharfingers' certificate, railway receipt, multi-modal transport document, warrant or order for the delivery of goods and any other document used in the ordinary course of business as proof of the possession or control of goods, or authorising or purporting to authorise, either by endorsement or by delivery, the possessor of the document to transfer or receive goods thereby represented. [Sale of Goods Act, 1930 (3 of 1930), s. 2 (4)]...


Inspection of written documents

Inspection of written documents. It was provided by the (English) Evidence Act, 1851 (14 & 15 Vict. c. 99), s. 6, that in any action or other proceeding the court or a judge might, on application by either party, compel the opposite party to allow the party making the application to inspect all documents in the custody or under the control of such opposite party relating to such action or other legal proceeding, and if necessary to take examined copies of the same, or to procure the same to be duly stamped. Even prior to this Act the court would, in certain cases, in the exercise of its equitable jurisdiction, order inspection of specific documents.By (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XXXI., rr. 15-18, either party is prima facie as a matter of right entitled to inspect (after notice) documents referred to in the pleadings or affidavits of the other, and may, by leave of a judge, and upon an affidavit, inspect other documents in possession of the other; and by Ord. L., r. 3, any party to a c...


Lost document

Lost document. The ordinary rule is that a document is proved by the production of the original, but on proof that a document has been destroyed, or cannot be found after a proper search made, it may be proved by the 'secondary evidence' of a copy or by oral evidence of its contents. See Powell on Evidence; and as to the case of a lost will, see Woodward v. Goulstone, (1886) 11 App Cas 469. (Indian Evidence Act, 1872, s. 65)....


Registered document

Registered document, the expression 'Registered document' means document registered under the laws prevailing in India, AIR 1964 Mad 527 (530). (Limitation Act, 1908, Art. 116)...


Document of title

Document of title, include any bill of lading, dock warrant, warehouse-keeper's certificate, and warrant or order for the delivery of goods, and any other document used in the ordinary course of business as proof of the possession or control of goods, or authorizing or purporting to authorize, either by indorsement or by delivery, the possessor of the document to transfer or receive goods thereby represented, (English) Factors Act, 1889,s. 1(4) (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England 1(2),para 160, p. 11...


Manorial documents

Manorial documents, Court Rolls, surveys, maps, terriers, all documents and books relating to the boundaries, franchises, wastes, customs or courts of a manor but not deeds or evidence of title to the manor, are now placed under the superintendence of the Master of the Rolls. They may remain in the possession or under the control of the lord of the manor but he shall not be entitled to destroy or wilfully damage them. The Master of the Rolls has power to direct the documents to be sent to the Public Record or local institutions undertaking to be responsible for the preservation and indexing of the documents and the Master of the Rolls may make rules for these purposes. [See (English) Law of Property Act, 1924, 2nd Sch., 2(4)]...


Documents (aircraft)

Documents (aircraft), means any certificate of registration, maintenance or airworthiness, log books and any similar document, Civil Aviation Act, 1982, s. 88(10) (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England (2) , para 1183, p. 576.Includes information recorded in any form and, in relation to information recorded otherwise than in legible form, reference to its production include references to producing a copy of the information in legible form, Banking Act, 1987, s. 106(1) (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England (2), para 35, p. 31.Given by way of charge is a document which only gives a right to payment out of a particular fund or property, and does not absolutely transfer the fund or property, Tancred v. Delagoa Bay and East Africa Rly. Co., (1889) 23 QBD 239 DC...


document of title

document of title :a document (as a warehouse receipt) which is issued by or addressed to a bailee and which in the ordinary course of business is considered to show that the person in possession of it is entitled to receive, hold, and dispose of the bailed goods covered by it ...


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