IEA 97 — Evidence as to application of language to one of two sets of facts, to neither of which the whole correctly applies

Indian Evidence Act, 1872

Statutory text

When the language used applies partly to one set of existing facts, and partly
to  another  set  of  existing  facts,  but  the  whole  of it  does  not  apply  correctly  to  either,  evidence  may  be given to show to which of the two it was meant to apply.
Illustration A agrees to sell to B “my land at X in the occupation of Y”. A has land at X, but not in the occupation of Y, and he has land in the occupation of Y but it is not at X. Evidence may be given of facts showing which he meant to sell.

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