When the question is whether persons are partners, landlord and tenant, or principal and agent, and it has been shown that they have been acting as such, the burden of proving that they do not stand, or have ceased to stand, to each other in those relationships respectively, is on the person who affirms it.
CHAPTER VII.––OF THE BURDEN OF PROOF
Section 109: Burden of proof as to relationship in the cases of partners, landlord and tenant, principal and agent
The Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (repealed)
Repealed by the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 (47 of 2023) with effect from 1 July 2024.
Now in the BSA
As given in the correspondence table of the National Crime Records Bureau (Ministry of Home Affairs). Read both texts before relying on it. NCRB table
| 109. Burden of proof as to relationship in the cases of partners, landlord and tenant, principal and agent. | BSA 112 |
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