IEA 39 — What evidence to be given when statement forms part of a conversation, document, electronic record, book or series of letters or papers

Indian Evidence Act, 1872

Statutory text

[39.  What  evidence  to  be  given  when  statement  forms  part  of  a  conversation,  document, electronic record, book or series of letters or papers.––When any statement of which evidence is given

7. The “last paragraph” omitted by Act 10 of 1914, s. 3 and the Second Schedule.

forms part of a longer statement, or of a conversation or part of an isolated document, or is contained in a
document which forms part of a book, or is contained in part of electronic record or of a connected series
of  letters  or  papers,  evidence  shall  be  given  of  so  much  and  no  more  of  the  statement,  conversation,
document,  electronic  record,  book  or  series  of  letters  or  papers  as  the  Court  considers  necessary  in  that
particular case to the full understanding of the nature and effect of the statement, and of the circumstances under which it was made.]
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UDGMENTS OF COURTS OF JUSTICE WHEN RELEVANT

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