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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 91: Evidence of terms of contracts, grants and other dispositions of property reduced to form of document
- Section 65A: Special provisions as to evidence relating to electronic record
- Section 106: Burden of proving fact especially within knowledge
- Section 143: When they may be asked
- Section 95: Evidence as to document unmeaning in reference to existing facts
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