98 Evidence Act - Evidence as to meaning of illegible characters, etc

Section 98 of Indian Evidence Act 1872 - 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.

Indian Evidence Act 1872

Section 90A Presumption as to electronic records five years old

Section 91 Evidence of terms of contracts, grants and other dispositions of property reduced to form of document

Section 92 Exclusion of evidence of oral agreement

Section 93 Exclusion of evidence to explain or amend ambiguous document

Section 94 Exclusion of evidence against application of document to existing facts

Section 95 Evidence as to document unmeaning in reference to existing facts

Section 96 Evidence as to application of language which can apply to one only of several persons

Section 97 Evidence as to application of language to one of two sets of facts, to neither of which the whole correctly applies

Section 98 Evidence as to meaning of illegible characters, etc

Section 99 Who may give evidence of agreement varying terms of document

Section 100 Saving of provisions of Indian Succession Act relating to wills