BSA · Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023
Section 96 — Exclusion of evidence to explain or amend ambiguous document.
Replaces Evidence Act Section 93.
When the language used in a document is, on its face, ambiguous or defective, evidence may not be given of facts which would show its meaning or supply its defects. Illustrations. (a) A agrees, in writing, to sell a horse to B for "one lakh rupees or one lakh fifty thousand rupees". Evidence cannot be given to show which price was to be given. (b) A deed contains blanks. Evidence cannot be given of facts which would show how they were meant to be filled.
Nearby sections
- 93 Presumption as to electronic records five years old.
- 94 Evidence of terms of contracts, grants and other dispositions of property reduced to form of document.
- 95 Exclusion of evidence of oral agreement.
- 97 Exclusion of evidence against application of document to existing facts.
- 98 Evidence as to document unmeaning in reference to existing facts.
- 99 Evidence as to application of language which can apply to one only of several persons.
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