Presumption as to books, maps and charts
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Summary
When the court uses a book on a matter of public or general interest, or inspects a published map or chart whose statements are relevant, it may presume the work was written and published by the person and at the time and place it purports. This is a rebuttable presumption, so authorship and publication are treated as true unless shown otherwise.
Example
Priya files a land dispute and produces a published government map showing village boundaries. The court may presume the map was written and published by the agency and at the date and place shown, so the map's authorship and publication are treated as true unless someone proves otherwise.
Bare Act
Enacted textThe Court may presume that any book to which it may refer for information on matters of public or general interest, and that any published map or chart, the statements of which are relevant facts, and which is produced for its inspection, was written and published by the person, and at the time and place, by whom or at which it purports to have been written or published.
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