Section-57 of the Evidence Act, 1872
The Evidence Act, 1872
(ACT NO. I OF 1872)
CHAPTER III
FACTS WHICH NEED NOT BE PROVED
Facts of which Court must take judicial notice
57. The Court shall take
judicial notice of the following facts:-
(1) All Bangladesh Laws:
(3) Articles of War for
the Armed Forces:
(4) The course of
proceeding of Parliament and of any Legislature which
had Power to legislate in respect of territories now comprised in Bangladesh.
(6) The seals of all the
Courts in Bangladesh: the seals of Courts of Admiralty and Maritime
Jurisdiction and of Notaries Public, and all seals which any person is
authorized to use by any law in force in Bangladesh:
(7) The accession to
office, names, titles, functions and signatures of the persons filling for the
time being any public office in Bangladesh, if the fact of their appointment to
such office is notified in any official Gazette:
(8) The existence, title
and national flag of every State or Sovereign recognized by the Government:
(9) The divisions of
time, the geographical divisions of the world, and public festivals, fasts and
holidays notified in the official Gazette:
(10) The
territories of Bangladesh:
(11) The commencement,
continuance and termination of hostilities between Bangladesh and any other
State or body of persons:
(12) The names of the
members and officers of the Court and of their deputies and subordinate
officers and assistants, and also of all officers acting in execution of its
process, and of all advocates and other persons authorized by law to
appear or act before it:
(13) The rule of the road
on land or at sea.
In all these cases and
also on all matters of public history, literature, science or art, the Court
may resort for its aid to appropriate books or documents of reference.
If the Court is called
upon by any person to take judicial notice of any fact, it may refuse to do so
unless and until such person produces any such book or document as it may
consider necessary to enable it to do so.
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