BSA Section 102: Who may give evidence of agreement varying terms of document
Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 · Chapter 6: Of the Exclusion of Oral Evidence by Documentary Evidence
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102. Persons who are not parties to a document, or their representatives in interest, may give evidence of any facts tending to show a contemporaneous agreement varying the terms of the document.
Illustration.
A and B make a contract in writing that B shall sell A certain cotton, to be paid for on delivery. At the same time, they make an oral agreement that three months\u2019 credit shall be given to A. This could not be shown as between A and B, but it might be shown by C, if it affected his interests.
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Other sections in this chapter
- 94. Evidence of terms of contracts, grants and other dispositions of property reduced to form of document
- 95. Exclusion of evidence of oral agreement
- 96. Exclusion of evidence to explain or amend ambiguous document
- 97. Exclusion of evidence against application of document to existing facts
- 98. Evidence as to document unmeaning in reference to existing facts
- 99. Evidence as to application of language which can apply to one only of several persons
- 100. Evidence as to application of language to one of two sets of facts, to neither of which the whole correctly applies
- 101. Evidence as to meaning of illegible characters, etc
- 103. Saving of provisions of Indian Succession Act relating to wills