The Indian Evidence Act
87Presumption as to books, maps and charts
The Court may presume that any book to which it may refer for information on matters of public or general interest, and that any published map or chart, the statements of which are relevant facts and which is produced for its inspection, was written and published by the person and at the time and place, by whom or at which it purports to have been written or published.
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PRESUMPTIONS AS TO 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 Presumptions as to powers-of-attorney
- 85A Presumption as to electronic agreements
- 85B Presumption as to electronic records and electronic signatures
- 85C Presumption as to Electronic Signature Certificates
- 86 Presumption as to certified copies of foreign judicial records
- 87 Presumption as to books, maps and charts
- 88 Presumption as to telegraphic messages
- 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 years old