IEA 82 — Presumption as to document admissible in England without proof of seal or signature

Indian Evidence Act, 1872

Statutory text

When  any  document  is  produced  before  any  Court,  purporting  to  be  a  document  which,  by  the  law  in
force for the time being in England or Ireland, would be admissible in proof of any particular in any Court
of Justice in England or Ireland, without proof of the seal or stamp or signature authenticating it, or of the
judicial  or  official  character  claimed  by  the  person  by  whom  it  purports  to  be  signed,  the  Court  shall
presume that such seal, stamp or signature is genuine, and that the person signing it held, at the time when
he signed it, the judicial or official character which he claims,
and  the  document  shall  be  admissible  for  the  same  purpose  for  which  it  would  be  admissible  in England or Ireland.

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