Indian Evidence Act, 1872

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Sections	Particulars
Chapter V	Documentary Evidence
74	Public documents
Description	The following documents are public documents :- (1) documents forming the acts, or records of the acts – (i) of the sovereign authority, (ii) of official bodies and tribunals, and (iii) of public officers, legislative, judicial and executive, 48[of any part of India or of the Commonwealth ] or of a foreign country; (2) Public records kept 49[ in any State ] of private documents.