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(1) In this Adhiniyam, unless the context otherwise requires,— (a) "Court" includes all Judges and Magistrates, and all persons, except arbitrators, legally authorised to take evidence; (b) "conclusive proof" means when one fact is declared by this Adhiniyam to be conclusive proof of another, the Court shall, on proof of the one fact, regard the other as proved, and shall not allow evidence to be given for the purpose of disproving it; (c) "disproved" in relation to a fact, means when, after considering the matters before it, the Court either believes that it does not exist, or considers its non-existence so probable that a prudent man ought, under the circumstances of the particular case, to act upon the supposition that it does not exist; (d) "document" means any matter expressed or described or otherwise recorded upon any substance by means of letters, figures or marks or any other means or by more than one of those means, intended to be used, or which may be used, for the purpose of recording that matter and includes electronic and digital records. Illustrations. (i)A writing is a document. (ii) Words printed, lithographed or photographed are documents. (iii) A map or plan is a document. (iv) An inscription on a metal plate or stone is a document. (v) Acaricature is a document. (vi)An electronic record on emails, server logs, documents on computers, laptop or smartphone, messages, websites, locational evidence and voice mail messages stored on digital devices are documents; (e) "evidence" means and includes— (i) all statements including statements given electronically which the Court permits or requires to be made before it by witnesses in relation to matters of fact under inquiry and such statements are called oral evidence; (ii) all documents including electronic or digital records produced for the inspection of the Court and such documents are called documentary evidence; (f) "fact" means and includes— (i) any thing, state of things, or relation of things, capable of being perceived by the senses; (ii) any mental condition of which any person is conscious. Illustrations. (i) That there are certain objects arranged in a certain order in a certain place, is a fact. (ii) That a person heard or saw something, is a fact. (iii) That a person said certain words, is a fact. Definitions. 2 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [Part II— _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ 2 ꯗꯒꯦꯖꯦꯠꯑꯣꯐꯏꯟꯗꯤꯌꯥꯑꯦꯛꯁꯇ꯭ꯔꯥꯑꯣꯔꯗꯤꯅꯔꯤ [Part II- ꯁꯟꯗꯣꯛꯅ ꯇꯥꯛꯄꯁꯤꯡ (꯳) ꯃꯁꯤꯀꯦꯟꯗ꯭ꯔꯁꯔꯀꯥꯔꯅꯑꯣꯐꯤꯁ ꯭ ꯌꯦꯜꯒꯖꯦꯠꯗꯅꯣꯇꯤꯐꯤꯀꯦꯁꯟꯒꯤꯈꯨꯠꯊꯥꯡꯗꯈꯟꯗꯣꯛꯄꯌꯥꯕꯇꯥꯡꯑꯗꯨꯗꯆꯠꯅꯔꯛꯀꯅꯤ꯫