📌👆The Principles governing such cases are•:
(i) Geneaiogies admitted or proved to -be old and relied on in previous cases are doubtless relevant and in some cases may even ·be conclusive of the facts proved, but there are several considerations which must be kept In mind viz. :
(a) Source of the genealogy and its dependability.
(b) Admiosibility of the genealogy under the Evidence Act.
(c) A proper use in decisions or judgments on which’ reliance is placed.
(d) Age of genealogies.
(e) Litigations where such · genealogies have been accepted .or rejected. [821 B-E]
(2) On the question of admissibility the following tests ·must be adopted ;
(a) The genealogies of the families concerned roust fall within the four-corners of s. 32(5) or s. 13 of the Evidence Act.
(b) They must not be hit by the doctrine of post /item motam.
(c) The genealogies or the claiffis cannot be proved by recitals, depositions or facts narrated in the judgment which have been held by a long course of decisions to be inadmissible.
(d) Where genealogy is proved by oral evidence, the said evidence must clearly shew special means of knowledge disclosing the exact source, time and the circumstlnces under which the knowledge is acquired, and this must be clearly and conclusively proved. [821 B-HJ The majority view that, Ex. J. is admissible js correct.
Section 35 of the Evidence Act requires the following conditions to be fulfilled before a document can be admissible under this section :
(I) the document must be in the nature of an entry ln any public or other official book, register or record,
(2) it must stat a fact in issue or·a releva.nt fact,
(3) the entry must be made by a public servant lo the discharge of his official duties or in performance of his duties especilly enjoined by the law of the country in which the relevant entry is kept. [829 H, 830 A·B]