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Select a section 1 - Short title, application and commencement 2 - Definitions 3 - Evidence may be given of facts in issue and relevant facts 4 - Relevancy of facts forming part of same transaction 5 - Facts which are occasion, cause or effect of facts in issue or relevant facts 6 - Motive, Preparation and previous or subsequent conduct 7 - Facts necessary to explain or introduce fact in issue or relevant facts 8 - Things said or done by conspirator in reference to common design 9 - When facts not otherwise relevant become relevant 10 - Facts tending to enable Court to determine amount are relevant in suits for damages 11 - Facts relevant when right or custom is in question 12 - Facts showing existence of state of mind, or of body or bodily feeling 13 - Facts bearing on question whether act was accidental or intentional 14 - Existence of course of business when relevant 15 - Admission defined 16 - Admission by party to proceeding or his agent 17 - Admissions by persons whose position must be proved as against party to suit 18 - Admissions by persons expressly referred to by party to suit 19 - Proof of admissions against persons making them, and by or on their behalf 20 - When oral admissions as to contents of documents are relevant 21 - Admissions in civil cases when relevant 22 - Confession caused by inducement, threat, coercion or promise, when irrelevant in criminal proceeding 23 - Confession to police officer 24 - Consideration of proved confession affecting person making it and others jointly under trial for same offence 25 - Admissions not conclusive proof, but may estop 26 - Cases in which statement of relevant fact by person who is dead or cannot be found, etc., is relevant 27 - Relevancy of certain evidence for proving, in subsequent proceeding, truth of facts therein stated 28 - Entries in books of account when relevant 29 - Relevancy of entry in public record or an electronic record made in performance of duty 30 - Relevancy of statements in maps, charts and plans 31 - Relevancy of statement as to fact of public nature contained in certain Acts or notifications 32 - Relevancy of statements as to any law contained in law books including electronic or digital form 33 - What evidence to be given when statement forms part of a conversation, document, electronic record, book or series of letters or papers 34 - Previous judgments relevant to bar a second suit or trial 35 - Relevancy of certain judgments in probate, etc., jurisdiction 36 - Relevancy and effect of judgments, orders or decrees, other than those mentioned in section 35 37 - Judgments, etc., other than those mentioned in sections 34, 35 and 36 when relevant 38 - Fraud or collusion in obtaining judgment, or incompetency of Court, may be proved 39 - Opinions of experts 40 - Facts bearing upon opinions of experts 41 - Opinion as to handwriting and signature, when relevant 42 - Opinion as to existence of general custom or right, when relevant 43 - Opinion as to usages, tenets, etc., when relevant 44 - Opinion on relationship, when relevant 45 - Grounds of opinion, when relevant 46 - In civil cases character to prove conduct imputed, irrelevant 47 - In criminal cases previous good character relevant 48 - Evidence of character or previous sexual experience not relevant in certain cases 49 - Previous bad character not relevant, except in reply 50 - Character as Affecting damages 51 - Fact judicially noticeable need not be proved 52 - Facts of which Court shall take judicial notice 53 - Facts admitted need not be proved 54 - Proof of facts by oral evidence 55 - Oral evidence to be direct 56 - Proof of contents of documents 57 - Primary Evidence 58 - Secondary Evidence 59 - Proof of documents by primary evidence 60 - Cases in which secondary evidence relating to documents may be given 61 - Electronic or digital record 62 - Special provisions as to evidence relating to electronic record 63 - Admissibility of electronic records 64 - Rules as to notice to produce 65 - Proof of signature and handwriting of person alleged to have signed or written document produced 66 - Proof as to Electronic signature 67 - Proof of execution of document required by law to be attested 68 - Proof where no attesting witness found 69 - Admission of execution by party to attested document 70 - Proof when Attesting witness denies execution 71 - Proof of document not required by law to be attested 72 - Comparison of signature, writing or seal with others admitted or proved 73 - Proof as to verification of digital signature 74 - Public and private documents 75 - Certified copies of public documents 76 - Proof of documents by production of certified copies 77 - Proof of other official documents 78 - Presumption as to genuineness of certified copies 79 - Presumption as to documents produced as record of evidence, etc 80 - Presumption as to Gazettes, newspapers, and other documents 81 - Presumption as to Gazettes in electronic or digital record 82 - Presumption as to maps or plans made by authority of Government 83 - Presumption as to collections of laws and reports of decisions 84 - Presumption as to powersof-attorney 85 - Presumption as to electronic agreements 86 - Presumption as to electronic records and electronic signatures 87 - Presumption as to Electronic Signature Certificates 88 - Presumption as to certified copies of foreign judicial records 89 - Presumption as to books, maps and charts 90 - Presumption as to electronic messages 91 - Presumption as to due execution, etc., of documents not produced 92 - Presumption as to documents thirty years old 93 - Presumption as to electronic records five years old 94 - Evidence of terms of contracts, grants and other dispositions of property reduced to form of document 95 - Exclusion of evidence of oral agreement 96 - Exclusion of evidence to explain or amend ambiguous document 97 - Exclusion of Evidence against application of document to existing facts 98 - Evidence as to document unmeaning in reference to existing facts 99 - Evidence as to application of language which can apply to one only of several persons 100 - Evidence as to application of language to one of two sets of facts, to neither of which the whole correctly applies 101 - Evidence as to meaning of illegible characters, etc 102 - Who may give evidence of agreement varying terms of document 103 - Saving of provisions of Indian Succession Act relating to wills 104 - Burden of proof 105 - On whom burden of proof lies 106 - Burden of proof as to particular fact 107 - Burden of proving fact to be proved to make evidence admissible 108 - Burden of proving that case of accused comes within exceptions 109 - Burden of proving fact especially within knowledge 110 - Burden of proving death of person known to have been alive within thirty years 111 - Burden of proving that person is alive who has not been heard of for seven years 112 - Burden of proof as to relationship in the cases of partners, landlord and tenant, principal and agent 113 - Burden of proof as to ownership 114 - Proof of good faith in transactions where one party is in relation of active confidence 115 - Presumption as to certain offences 116 - Birth during marriage, conclusive proof of legitimacy 117 - Presumption as to abetment of suicide by a married woman 118 - Presumption as to dowry death 119 - Court may Presume existence of certain facts 120 - Presumption as to absence of consent in certain prosecution for rape 121 - Estoppel 122 - Estoppel of tenant and of licensee of person in possession 123 - Estoppel of acceptor of bill of exchange, bailee or licensee 124 - Who may testify 125 - Witness unable to communicate verbally 126 - Competency of husband and wife as witnesses in certain cases 127 - Judges and Magistrates 128 - Communications During marriage 129 - Evidence as to affairs of State 130 - Official communications 131 - Information as to commission of offences 132 - Professional communications 133 - Privilege not waived by volunteering evidence 134 - Confidential communication with legal advisers 135 - Production of title-deeds of witness not a party 136 - Production of documents or electronic records which another person, having possession, could refuse to produce 137 - Witness not excused from answering on ground that answer will criminate 138 - Accomplice 139 - Number of witnesses 140 - Order of production and examination of witnesses 141 - Judge to decide as to admissibility of evidence 142 - Examination of witnesses 143 - Order of examinations 144 - Cross-examination of person called to produce a document 145 - Witnesses to character 146 - Leading questions 147 - Evidence as to matters in writing 148 - Cross-examination as to previous statements in writing 149 - Questions lawful in cross-examination 150 - When witness to be compelled to answer 151 - Court to decide when question shall be asked and when witness compelled to answer 152 - Question not to be asked without reasonable grounds 153 - Procedure of Court in case of question being asked without reasonable grounds 154 - Indecent and scandalous questions 155 - Questions intended to insult or annoy 156 - Exclusion of evidence to contradict answers to questions testing veracity 157 - Question by party to his own witness 158 - Impeaching credit of witness 159 - Questions tending to corroborate evidence of relevant fact, admissible 160 - Former statements of witness may be proved to corroborate later testimony as to same fact 161 - What matters may be proved in connection with proved statement relevant under section 26 or 27 162 - Refreshing memory 163 - Testimony to facts stated in document mentioned in section 162 164 - Right of adverse party as to writing used to refresh memory 165 - Production of documents 166 - Giving, as evidence, of document called for and produced on notice 167 - Using, as evidence, of document production of which was refused on notice 168 - Judge's power to put questions or order production 169 - No new trial for improper admission or rejection of evidence 170 - Repeal and savings Schedule - Certificate