LawgistThe Indian Evidence Act
98Evidence 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, sculptor, agrees to sell to B, "all my mods". A has both models and modelling tools. Evidence may be given to show which he meant to sell.
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CHAPTER VI. –– OF THE EXCLUSION OF ORAL BY DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE
- 91 Evidence of terms of contracts, grants and other dispositions of property reduced to form of document
- 92 Exclusion of evidence of oral agreement
- 93 Exclusion of evidence to explain or amend ambiguous document
- 94 Exclusion of evidence against application of document to existing facts
- 95 Evidence as to document unmeaning in reference to existing facts
- 96 Evidence as to application of language which can apply to one only of several persons
- 97 Evidence as to application of language to one of two sets of facts, to neither of which the whole correctly applies
- 98 Evidence as to meaning of illegible characters, etc
- 99 Who may give evidence of agreement varying terms of document
- 100 Saving of provisions of Indian Succession Act relating to wills
