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Evidence Act · 2014 Revised Edition · Chapter VIII
Evidence Act · 2014 Revised Edition · Chapter VIII
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
No acceptor of a bill of exchange shall be permitted to deny that the drawer had authority to draw such bill or to endorse it.
No bailee, agent or licensee shall be permitted to deny that the bailor, principal or licensor, by whom any goods were entrusted to any of them respectively, was entitled to those goods at the time when they were so entrusted:
Evidence
evidence
“evidence” includes — (a) all statements which the court permits or requires to be made before it by witnesses in relation to matters of fact under inquiry: such statements are called oral evidence; (b) all documents produced for the inspection of the court: such documents are called documentary evidence.
Provided that any such bailee, agent or licensee may show that he was compelled to deliver up any such goods to some person who had a right to them as against his bailor, principal or licensor, or that his bailor, principal or licensor wrongfully and without notice to the bailee, agent or licensee, obtained the goods from a third person, who has claimed them from such bailee, agent or licensee.
Explanation — The acceptor of a bill of exchange may deny that the bill was really drawn by the person by whom it purports to have been drawn.
evidence
“evidence” includes — (a) all statements which the court permits or requires to be made before it by witnesses in relation to matters of fact under inquiry: such statements are called oral evidence; (b) all documents produced for the inspection of the court: such documents are called documentary evidence.