Civil Proceedings Evidence Act, 1965 (Act No. 25 of 1965)

Part VI : Documentary Evidence (Miscellaneous Provisions)

37. Presumptions as to documents twenty years old
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There shall in any civil proceedings, in the case of a document proved or purporting to be not less than twenty years old, be made any presumption which on the fifteenth day of March, 1962, would have been made in the case of a document of like character proved or which purported to be not less than thirty years old.