IEA 87 — Presumption as to books, maps and charts

Indian Evidence Act, 1872

Statutory text

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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