Indian Evidence Act
(IEA)
Evidence as to meaning of illegible characters, etc.
Chapter 6: Of the exclusion of oral by documentary evidence
Section: 98
Evidence may be given to show the meaning of illegible or not commonly intelligible characters, of foreign, obsolete, technical, local and provisional expressions, of abbreviations and of words used in a peculiar sense.IllustrationA, 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.
