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Section 74 - Indian Evidence Act, 1872
Indian Evidence Act, 1872
74. Public documents
The following documents are public documents :-
(1) documents forming the acts, or records of the acts –
(i) of the sovereign authority,
(ii) of official bodies and tribunals, and
(iii) of public officers, legislative, judicial and executive, 48[of any part of India or of the Commonwealth ] or of a foreign country;
(2) Public records kept 49[ in any State ] of private documents.
Related Sections
- Section 120: Parties to civil suit, and their wives or husbands, Husbands or wife of person under criminal trial
- Section 97: Evidence as to application of language to one of two sets of facts, to neither of which the whole correctly applies
- Section 23: Admission in civil cases relevant
- Section 107: Burden of proving death of person known to have been alive within thirty years
- Section 90: Presumption as to documents thirty years old
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