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Before the question in issue was raised

it was raised in the particular litigation in which such a statement is sought to be adduced in evidence, Kalidinali Venkata Subbarju v. Chintalapati Subbaraju, AIR 1968 SC 947 (953): (1968) 2 SCR 292. [Evidence Act (1

Bank and banker

the business of banking (b) any partnership or individual to whose books the provisions of the Banker's Books Evidence Act, 1891 shall have been extended as provided, Banker's Books Evidence Act, 1891, sec. 2(2).

Autrefois acquit

bar to the indictment. The true test, whether such a plea is a sufficient bar, is, whether the evidence necessary to support the second indictment would have been sufficient to procure a legal conviction upon the first,

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Distinctly

Distinctly, the word 'distinctly' means 'directly', 'indubitably' 'strictly', 'unmistakably'. The word has been advisedly used to limit and define the scope of the provable information. The phrase 'distinctly' relates 'to the fact thereby discovered' (sic) (and?)...

Cyber law

is the Information Technology Act, 2000. The Act has this amended, The Indian Penal Code, 1860, The Indian Evidence Act, 1872, The Bankers' Book Evidence Act, 1891, The Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934. The Communication Convergence

Jury

Jury [fr. jurata, Lat.; jure, Fr.], a number of persons sworn to deliver a verdict upon evidence delivered to them touching the issue. Trial by jury may be traced to the earliest Anglo-Saxon times. One

Fact

Fact, question of. See QUESTIONS OF FACT. Something that actually exists; as aspect of reality, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p 610. The word 'fact' means some concrete or material fact to which the information directly...

In judicio non creditur nisi juratis

Cro. Car. 54.--(In a trial credence is given only to those who are sworn.) For admission of unsworn evidence of a child, however, in case of cruelty, etc., to child, see (English) Children and Young Persons Act,

Allegans suam turpitudinem non est audiendus

infamy is not to be heard.)-This maxim of the civil law is no part of the law of evidence in England; and it is doubtful whether it ever was. See Best on Evidence. But a person cannot

May presume and shall presume

presume and shall presume, The expressions 'may presume' and 'shall presume' are defined in s. 4 of the Evidence Act. The presumptions falling under the former category are compendiously known as 'factual presumptions' or 'discretionary presumptions' and

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