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