S.SWAMIKKANNU
Manicka Mudaliar – Appellant
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Shanmugasundara Mudaliar – Respondent
S. Swamikkannu, J.
1. This is a civil revision petition against the order in E.P. No. 583 of 1979 in O.S. No. 1252 of 1970 on the file of the District Munsif of Ariyalur, wherein documents only have been filed, but no oral evidence has been let in with respect to those documents and on the contents of the same the lower Court had come to a conclusion. The documents, when they are inducted in a suit by way of proof, it is the elementary principle, which is known to each citizen in this country, that the same have to be proved in accord with the Indian Evidence Act so that the contents of the said documents can be taken as evidence. By merely marking the documents by consent, the Court is not obliged to look into the contents, unless those documents are formally proved in accordance with the provisions of the Indian Evidence Act. The Indian Evidence Act contemplates only certain documents that can be taken judicial notice of and when they are enumerated, apart from the said documents, no other document could be taken judicial notice of by a Court. Under the circumstances, in the instant case, when Exhibit A-1, the profession-tax certificate issued by the President, Panchayat, Pen
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