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Section 98 - Indian Evidence Act, 1872
Indian Evidence Act, 1872
98. Evidence as to meaning of illegible characters, etc.
Evidence may be given to show the meaning of illegible or not commonly intelligible characters, of foreign, obsolete, technical, local and provincial expressions, of abbreviations and of words used in a peculiar sense.
Illustration
A, a sculptor, agrees to sell to B, "all my mods" A has both models and modeling tools. Evidence may be given to show which he meant to sell.
Related Sections
- Section 94: Exclusion of evidence against application of document to existing facts
- Section 118: Who may testify
- Section 65: Cases in which secondary evidence relating to documents may be given
- Section 120: Parties to civil suit, and their wives or husbands, Husbands or wife of person under criminal trial
- Section 4: "May presume"
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