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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 24: Confession caused by inducement, threat or promise when irrelevant in criminal proceedings
- Section 133: Accomplice
- Section 87: Presumption as to books, maps and charts
- Section 157: Former statements of witness may be proved to corroborate later testimony as to same fact
- Section 153: Exclusion of evidence to contradict answers to questions testing veracity
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