INDIAN EVIDENCE ACT, 1872
BHARATIYA SAKSHYA ADHINIYAM, 2023
130. Production of title-deeds of witness not a party.
135. Production of title-deeds of witness not a party.
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INDIAN EVIDENCE ACT, 1872
130. Production of title-deeds of witness not a party. –– No witness who is not a party to a suit
shall be compelled to produce his title-deeds to any property, or any document in virtue of which he holds
any property as pledge or mortgagee or any document the production of which might tend to criminate
him, unless he has agreed in writing to produce them with the person seeking the production of such
deeds or some person through whom he claims.
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Repealed / replaced by BSA India Code — IEA 1872
BHARATIYA SAKSHYA ADHINIYAM, 2023
135. Production of title-deeds of witness not a party.—No witness who is not a party to a suit shall
be compelled to produce his title-deeds to any property, or any document in virtue of which he holds any
property as pledgee or mortgagee or any document the production of which might tend to criminate him,
unless he has agreed in writing to produce them with the person seeking the production of such deeds or
some person through whom he claims.
Current law India Code — BSA 2023