QSO 1984 § Article 55 — Relevancy of certain judgments in probate, etc

Statutory text (English)

, jurisdiction. A final judgment, order
or decree of a competent Court in the exercise of probate matrimonial, admiralty or insolvency
jurisdiction, which confers upon or takes away from any person any legal character, or which
declares any person to be entitled to any such character, or to be entitled to any specific thing, not
as against any specified person but absolutely, is relevant when the existence of any such legal
character, or the title of any such person to any such thing, is relevant.
Such judgment, order or decree is conclusive proof—
that any legal character which it confers accused, at the time when such judgment, order or
decree came into operation ;
that any legal character, to which it declares any such person to be entitled, accrued to that
person at the time when such judgment, order or decree declares it to have accrued to that person;
that any legal character which it takes away from any such person ceased at the time from which
such judgment, order or decree declared that it had ceased or should cease;
and that anything to which it declares any person to be so entitled was the property of that person
at the time from which such judgment, order or decree declares that it had been or should be his
property.

Source and verification

Source citation: Qanun-e-Shahadat Order, 1984 (P.O. No. X of 1984) Art. 55: Pakistan Code portal consolidated official PDF 'THE QANUN-E-SHAHADAT ORDER 1984 (LAW OF EVIDENCE)' (P.O. No. X of 1984, last amended 2017-02-16 incl. Act No. IV of 2017), p. 34, ingested 2026-09-15. Automated transcription from official source (pypdf extraction, audited artifact repair); human admin re-check required before production.

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