Bare ActsThe INDIAN EVIDENCE ACT 1872

Section 66

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Secondary evidence of the contents of the Ru~('sr1~tv documents referred to in section sixty-five, 'clause (a), notIcetoPI\)- shall not be given unless the party proposing to give duee. such secondary evidence has previously. given to the party in whose possesbion or power the document is, such notice to produce it as is prescribed bJTlaw; and if no notice is prescribed by law, then such notice as the . -~,i . . [ ACT I i . Et,idence, , [ pf 1908. the Court considers reasonable under the circum-' stances of the case: Provided that such notice shall not be required in order to render secondary evidence admissible in any of the following cases, or in any, other case in which the Colutthinks' fit to dispense with it :- (1.) When the document to be proved is itself a notice; - " , (2,) When, n . Jhe nature of the case, the ad- verse party n;lust . ..J.owthat he will be required to produce it!~. , (3.) When it appears or is proved ,that the ad- verse paI'tj7has obtained possession of the original by fraud or force; , (4.) When the adverse party or his agent has the original in Court;, , ' (5.) When the adverse PI i, or his agent has admitted the loss of the doc' ,; 11. (6.) When the perso~ in possession of the docu- ment is out of reach of, or not subject to, the process, of the CQurt. ~roofof

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