Section 98 Indian Evidence Act 1872
Section 98 of the Indian Evidence Act 1872 is about ‘Evidence as to meaning of illegible characters, etc.‘. It is under Chapter VI of the Act. Chapter VI is titled ‘OF THE EXCLUSION OF ORAL BY DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE‘.
Evidence as to meaning of illegible characters, etc.
Evidence may be given to show the meaning of illegible or not commonly intelligible characters, of foreign, obsolete, technical, local and provincial expressions, of abbreviations and of words used in a peculiar sense.
Illustration
A, sculptor, agrees to sell to B, “all my mods”. A has both models and modelling tools. Evidence may be given to show which he meant to sell.
See also:
Section 97 Indian Evidence Act 1872 (Evidence as to application of language to one of two sets of facts, to neither of which the whole correctly applies)