Frequently asked questions.

Xegality is an AI-native legal workspace built for Indian practice. Advocates, law firms, in-house legal teams, clients and law students use it to research Indian case law, draft documents, manage cases and court dates, work with clients and send GST-ready invoices, all in one place.

Advocates, law firms, corporate legal teams, chartered accountants, clients and law students. Each gets a dashboard built for their side of the work.

No. Xegality is software for legal work. It is not a law firm, it does not practise law and it does not give legal advice. Answers and drafts from Xegality AI are general information and should be reviewed by a qualified advocate before they are relied on.

Create an account and pick your role. Lawyers, law firms, companies and students get 7 days of every feature free, with no card. Clients get a free account. If you would like a walkthrough first, book a demo.

No. Xegality runs in your web browser on any computer. There is also an Android app on Google Play, and the iPhone app is coming soon to the App Store.

Xegality AI answers in English, Hindi or Hinglish, and Lens reads English and Hindi sources. The menus and screens of the app are in English.

Yes. Book a demo and tell us about your practice. We will walk you through research, drafting, cases and billing for the kind of work you do.

Pick the one that matches how you will use Xegality: Consumer if you are a client, Law student, Lawyer for an independent advocate, Law firm for a firm and its team, or Corporate for an in-house legal team. Consumer accounts are free; the others start with a free trial.

Your name, mobile number, email address and a password. Law firm and corporate sign-ups also ask for the organisation's details and your designation. We send one code to your mobile and another to your email, and you confirm that you accept the Terms and Privacy Policy and are 18 or older, or have a parent's or guardian's consent.

You land on the dashboard for your account type. Lawyers, law firms, companies and students get a free trial of every feature from sign-up, and the Billing page shows how many days are left. Client accounts are free, so there is nothing to start.

Not by yourself. Your account type is set when you sign up and can't be changed from Settings. If you picked the wrong one, write to [email protected] from your registered email and tell us which type you need.

Open the link in your invitation email and create your account from it. You then join your firm's or company's workspace, and its plan covers you. Invitation links expire and work only once, so if yours has stopped working, ask the owner to send a new one.

Yes. Sign in with the same mobile number or email in your browser and in the Android app, and your cases, drafts and files are the same on both.

Fill in the short form on the Book a demo page and our team contacts you by email to find a time that suits you. The walkthrough focuses on the kind of matters you handle, from the first research question to the final invoice.

Xegality AI is built for Indian legal work. It searches Indian judgments, live court records and your own Vault, and links each claim to the source it came from. It also sits in the same workspace as your cases, drafts and invoices, and asks you to approve its plan before it changes anything.

Xegality is built for Indian practice, with Indian judgments, court tracking by CNR, the BNS, BNSS and BSA, and practice tools such as a case diary, client dashboard and GST invoices. Harvey is enterprise legal AI used by large firms and in-house teams across many countries. Our comparison page sets out the details.

Yes. Many feature pages on our website include a short how-to video, for example for Xegality AI, the Vault, the Dataroom, Lens, Index and drafting. For a guided walkthrough on your own kind of work, book a demo.

Xegality Technologies Private Limited. The Terms and Conditions and the End-User License Agreement are agreements between you and this company, and both are governed by the laws of India.

Xegality's legal assistant. Ask a legal question in plain language and get an answer with citations to the judgments, statutes and sources it relied on. It can also take on multi-step work, such as reviewing a set of documents or preparing a draft, and hands the result back to you for review.

From the sources it searches for that question: Indian judgments, live court case data, CourtListener opinions, SEC EDGAR filings, the web, or your own Vault. Each claim is linked to the source it came from.

Indian judgments from the Supreme Court, 16 High Courts, NCDRC and ITAT, with live case status fetched from court records. For US material there are CourtListener opinions and SEC EDGAR filings.

Yes. Xegality covers the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam. Our free converters map IPC sections to BNS, CrPC to BNSS and the Evidence Act to BSA.

Yes, like any AI. It speeds up research and first drafts, but it does not replace legal judgement. Read the cited authorities before you rely on an answer, and have a qualified advocate check anything you file or send.

No. Xegality AI asks you to approve its plan before it acts and puts every change in a review queue. Workflows pause for approval before steps that draft with AI or create clients and cases.

Yes. Point Xegality AI at your Vault and its answers are grounded in your files, with citations back to the page they came from.

Lens watches 30 official Indian sources, including RBI, SEBI, CBIC, MCA, IBBI, eGazette, India Code and the Supreme Court, and brings you the updates that matter to your clients. Every update is labelled by source type, and the analysis cites the passage it relies on.

Yes. Xegality AI picks its sources on its own, but a chip under the message box can point it at one: INDIA for Supreme Court and High Court judgments, GST for GST law, CBIC circulars and GST judgments (for lawyers with GST Practice), USA for US opinions, EDGAR for SEC filings, the web or your Vault. A chip stays on for every message until you turn it off.

Yes. Ask about your own cases, clients, drafts or physical files, such as when a matter is next listed or who has a file, and Xegality AI answers from your Xegality records.

Yes. Type the CNR in chat and Xegality AI fetches the case's live status, orders and next date from court records. To be told about new orders and hearing dates, add the CNR to the case's Court tab.

Yes. Ask for a bail application, a legal notice or an NDA and it opens as an editable draft in the drafting editor, where you can refine it and run the risk scan and citation check before it goes anywhere.

Yes. Copy the answer or download it as a PDF. Lawyers can also save it to the Vault, so the research stays with the rest of the matter's files.

Yes, when a question needs current information. The web is one of its sources, alongside Indian judgments, court records, CourtListener, SEC EDGAR and your Vault. Turn on the Web chip if you want it to search the web for every message.

Yes. Ask for an India-vs-USA comparison, for example on anticipatory bail, and it sets out both positions with citations for each side. One search reads Indian case law, CourtListener and SEC EDGAR together.

Describe the task in plain language and point it to the files. Xegality AI lists its steps and any questions, you edit or approve the plan, and it works while you watch progress live. Drafts, index rows and file changes then wait in a review queue for you.

It stops and asks you instead of guessing. The step that needs the fact waits, marked as needing you, and the work carries on once you answer.

It can create and edit drafts, create indexes and add rows, organise folders and files, and create tasks. Each change waits in the review queue with its citations until you accept it.

Yes. Large jobs are split across sub-agents that work on your files in parallel, and you can watch each step's progress live. Everything they produce still waits in the review queue until you accept it.

Saved methods for recurring work. Built-in skills include Synopsis & List of Dates, a Section 138 NI Act demand notice, a hearing brief, a limitation check and a due diligence report. You can also write your own skills, for the whole firm or just for yourself.

No. Xegality AI treats text inside documents as data, never as instructions, and tells you where it finds instructions that look like tampering.

Their terms with Xegality don't allow it. Only the text needed for a request is sent to the AI provider, only when you use an AI feature and only for that request. The Privacy Policy lists every AI provider Xegality uses.

Yes. In the Dataroom's India tab, choose Delhi High Court in the court filter and search as usual. The same filter lets you narrow results to the Supreme Court or any other High Court we cover.

Yes. Sort Dataroom results by most recent, oldest first or A to Z, or keep the most relevant at the top.

Yes. Search them in the Dataroom's USA tab and read the full opinion inside Xegality. US opinions come from CourtListener, the free legal research database run by the Free Law Project, which covers federal and state courts.

Yes. In the EDGAR tab, find a US-listed company, browse its filings, read the XBRL financial facts such as revenue and net income, and get a short AI summary of a filing. The original filing is always one click away.

Use the Dataroom when you want to search and read the sources yourself, with court filters, a full-text reader and export to PDF or Word. Xegality AI searches the same sources for you and writes a cited answer, which you can then check in the Dataroom.

Describe what to watch in plain language, pick topics such as GST, SEBI, FEMA or labour, choose the sources and link the clients or cases it serves. Lens then plans its searches, reads what is new and matches it to the tracker.

As often as you set for each tracker: run it manually, daily, or on the weekdays you choose. Scans run in the tracker's own time zone.

Your choice. A tracker can use official sources only, official sources first, or all sources, and secondary sources such as LiveLaw, Bar & Bench and Taxmann can be included or left out. Every update is labelled official, secondary or unverified.

Yes. Link a tracker to your clients and, for each update, Lens shows whether it applies to each linked client and why, citing the passage it relies on. You then mark it applicable or not.

Yes. Turn an update into an action with a due date confirmed from the source text, add it to an index as a row, or open a client brief in the editor. Alerts reach you in the app and by email, with digests of what changed.

Yes. Open the update in Lens and compare it with a document in your Vault to see what the change means for it. You can also ask questions about the update, answered from the source text.

Ask the way you would brief a colleague: give the facts, the court or statute if you know it, and attach or point to the documents the answer depends on. Turn on a source chip for a specific source, then open the citations and read the authorities before you rely on the answer.

Yes. Each file is split and indexed in the background after upload, so search finds a passage by what it says, even when the wording differs from what you typed.

Yes. Use /summarize, /compare, /risks and /memo on your files for a summary, a comparison, a list of risks or a memo. You can also research Indian law, US law, the web or EDGAR starting from a file.

Extract its key terms, run legal research on it, find relevant cases, or generate a draft from it. You can also preview the file in the browser without downloading it.

Yes. Organise Vault files in folders, one per matter if you like. When Autopilot opens a matter, it creates the Vault folder for you and saves each draft there as a .docx file.

No. Import is one way: you pick files in Google Drive and they are copied into the Vault, PDFs as they are, Google Docs as DOCX and Google Sheets as XLSX. Later edits in Drive are not copied across.

Yes. The Vault belongs to your firm's workspace, so the firm's matter files live in one place. The firm owner decides which members can use it, and the server checks those permissions on every request, not just in the menu.

It depends on your plan. The Pricing page shows the Vault storage each plan includes, and you can add a storage pack to a live plan from the Billing page.

Five types: free response for open questions, classification into your own categories, yes or no, date, and verbatim for the exact words of a clause. The type decides the shape of each answer, so an expiry comes back as a date.

Yes. Download the table as XLSX, CSV or JSON for reports and client updates. You don't need to re-upload anything to run a review, because it works on files already in your Vault folders.

You can send them to an index, where each becomes a row you can assign, comment on and sign off, so the follow-ups are tracked with their source.

Checklists, chronologies and trackers that an AI agent fills from your Vault documents, with a citation on every row. Start from a template such as a closing checklist, Synopsis & List of Dates, a due diligence tracker or a limitation and hearing tracker, or from a blank index.

Yes. Point Index, or the Synopsis & List of Dates skill, at the pleadings and orders in your Vault. Each date comes with the page or paragraph it came from, and you can export the result to Word for the paper book.

It leaves it out rather than guess. Every row it adds cites the clause or paragraph it relied on, so you can check each one against the source before you use it.

Yes. Add custom fields the AI can fill, set your own statuses, and save the layout as a firm template so everyone in the firm starts the same way.

Yes. Indexes update in real time. Assign rows to members, filter to Assigned to me, and keep comments, attachments and sign-off on each row as the work moves.

Yes. Due-soon reminders keep deadlines visible. When the index is ready to share, export it to CSV or Word.

Your firm's reusable know-how: clauses, prompts, notes, reference files, question sets and saved websites in the Legal Library, plus playbooks and precedents. Lens, for regulatory tracking, sits here too.

Clauses you enable in the Legal Library are added to Xegality AI's context in chat, so its answers and drafts lean on your firm's standard wording. You can also draft clauses with AI, compare versions and get recommendations.

Yes. Save a prompt with variables, fill them in when you run it, and share it with your team so everyone runs the same instruction. Saved prompts also run from the Word add-in.

Yes. Build a question set, publish it and send the public link. Responses are collected in your Legal Library, so you can reuse the same set, such as a new client intake, for every matter.

Your firm's positions on contract terms, written down once and linked to your clauses. Playbooks apply to new contracts: the playbook check in drafting compares a draft with those positions, and the Word add-in can review an open document against them.

Yes. Knowledge holds your firm's precedents alongside its clauses, prompts and notes. If you connect Claude or ChatGPT, they can use your saved knowledge, precedents and notes when they answer.

Notices, petitions, agreements, affidavits and any other document, in an editor with AI help, a risk scan and citation checks. The AI Drafter, currently in Beta, asks about the matter and builds the draft with you.

Yes. Every draft exports to PDF or Word.

Yes. Share the draft to your client's free dashboard. They can comment, suggest changes, fill the fields you add and sign by drawing or typing their signature. No separate e-signature service is needed, and you decide what goes into the next version.

Pick the documents a matter needs and Autopilot creates a case, a Vault folder and one draft per document, saved in the editor and as a .docx in the folder. If a document isn't listed, choose Custom and describe it.

Storage for your files that Xegality AI can search and cite. It holds PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, image and ZIP files with previews in the browser, and you can import files from Google Drive.

Yes. Ask the same questions of a set of similar documents, such as leases, NDAs or loan agreements, and see the answers side by side in a table. Every cell is editable, and you can mark cells as verified or flag them for follow-up.

Yes. With the Word add-in you can ask about the open document, review it against your playbooks and run saved prompts, and open and save Word files in OneDrive.

On our Legal formats pages: legal notice, vakalatnama, affidavit and other common formats, free to read and use.

Four ways: use the case or document wizard, upload a file you already have, brief the AI Drafter, or run Autopilot for a full set of documents. You can insert material from your Vault as you go.

Yes. Upload a PDF, DOCX, DOC or TXT file and it becomes an editable draft, with the same AI tools, checks and client sharing as any other draft.

Draft Studio is Xegality's drafting workspace, where you write and edit drafts with AI, run the risk scan and citation check, and share drafts with clients. Drafts that Xegality AI, Claude or ChatGPT save for you open there too.

Rewrite it, improve the legal language, expand or shorten it, summarise it, explain it in plain English, or add citations and case law. Check the result as you would any AI-written text.

Yes. Translate a selected passage or the whole draft into Hindi or another Indian language, such as Marathi, Tamil or Bengali, written in its own script. Have someone who reads the language check it before you use it.

It reads the draft and flags clauses that carry risk, so you can fix them before the draft goes to your client or the court. Drafts with open risk flags are marked in Draft Tracking.

Choose “Verify Citations” and Xegality lists the judgments and statute sections the draft cites. Each one is marked verified, or flagged for you to check because it could not be found or may be wrong. Read the authorities yourself before you file.

It compares a draft with your firm's playbook, the positions your firm has written down for its contracts, and shows where the draft departs from them. Playbooks link to the clauses in your library.

In Settings → Playbooks. Write your positions down once, and the playbook check in the drafting editor and in the Word add-in compares contracts against them.

Yes. Insert material from your Vault into a draft as you write, generate a new draft from any Vault file, and save exports back to the Vault.

Yes. Keep them in the clause library in the Legal Library, where AI helps you draft and compare them. Clauses you enable are added to Xegality AI's context, so its answers and drafts lean on your firm's wording.

Yes. Build a question set in the Legal Library, publish it and send the client its public link. Their responses are collected in your library, so you have the facts in one place.

Change its status as it progresses: Draft, In review, Approved and Final. You can also set a review deadline, and Draft Tracking lists every draft by status.

Yes. Each draft has a version history, and you approve the version that counts. When you share a new version, your client sees exactly what changed since the last one.

Yes. The editor shows the colleagues who are editing the draft live, and you can leave comments on the text for each other.

One table of all your drafts, with each draft's status, review deadline, shares, reads, signatures and open risk flags, plus an activity feed of what clients have done on the drafts you shared.

You see it as it happens. Opens, comments, change requests, filled fields, approvals and signatures show up on your side and in the Draft Tracking activity feed, marked unread until you mark them read.

Yes. Set a review deadline when you share the draft. It shows against the draft in Draft Tracking, and drafts past their deadline are marked overdue.

The draft in their free client dashboard, with a short AI summary at the top, an “Explain this clause” option for any clause they select, the risk flags you have marked and, for a new version, what changed.

Yes. Flag the clause and add a short explanation. It is highlighted in the client's copy of the draft with your note, so they know where to read closely.

Yes. The client can comment on the text, suggest a change and request changes rather than approve. You see the request on your side and in Draft Tracking, and can send a revised version.

Yes, a free one. Drafts are shared to the client's dashboard, so add them as a client first, or share by their Xegality ID if they already have an account.

Not necessarily. The built-in signature is a drawn or typed signature made in the client dashboard. Documents that must be stamped, registered, notarised or signed in ink still need those steps, so check what the document requires with an advocate.

More than 60 Indian document types across litigation and transactions, such as writ petitions, bail and anticipatory bail applications, plaints, NCLT applications, MACT claims, consumer complaints, NDAs, shareholders' agreements and property deeds.

No. The documents you pick are drafted in parallel. You can watch each one move from queued to done, and come back to the run whenever you like.

Yes. Ask Xegality AI for a bail application, a notice or an NDA and it opens as an editable draft in the drafting editor, where you can refine it and run the checks.

A workspace for close reading. Open PDFs and Word files side by side with a canvas of notes, highlight and excerpt passages, and every note stays linked to the page it came from.

Yes. Point your phone at the page and Doc Canvas finds its edges, captures it when it holds still, straightens it and evens out shadows. Check or retake each page, and the pages become one searchable PDF in your workspace.

PDFs and Word (.docx) files. A Word file is turned into a PDF in your browser so you can read and highlight it like any PDF; the text and structure are kept, but page breaks and spacing can differ from Word.

Yes. Once a workspace is saved on your device you can keep reading and annotating offline, and your changes sync when you reconnect.

Yes. Run text recognition on scanned pages so their text can be selected and searched. It runs on your own device, for English, Hindi, Marathi or Gujarati, and the recognised text syncs to colleagues on the workspace.

Yes. Link the workspace to a matter and everyone on the matter can open it. You see who else is in the workspace, and colleagues can reply to your highlights and comments.

Yes. Export your canvases, highlights and comments as a Word document, or print them or save them as a PDF. Each note keeps its citation: the document and page it came from.

Replace the document with the new version and your highlights, excerpts and links follow their passages. Anything that can't be matched is tagged for you to check, and you can undo the replacement.

Download the add-in manifest from the Xegality for Word page and upload it in Word under My add-ins → Upload my add-in. Xegality then appears on Word's Home tab. The page gives the exact steps for Word on the web and on desktop.

Yes. A Microsoft 365 administrator can deploy them to everyone from the Microsoft 365 admin centre, under Settings → Integrated apps → Upload custom apps.

Word 2019, Word in Microsoft 365 and Word on the web. If your Word is older, the add-in tells you so; update Word and open the add-in again.

No. Suggested edits appear in the pane and reach the document only when you apply them. By default they go in as tracked changes you can accept or reject in Word, and you can switch to direct edits.

They handle routine jobs on the open document: improve selected writing, fill a template from a term sheet or earlier document, anonymise names and ID numbers, translate, and turn the other side's tracked changes into an issues list.

Use the Assistant on the email you have open: summarise the thread, draft a reply in the tone you choose, or polish the one you are writing. You can also save the email and its attachments to your Vault, or attach Vault documents to an email.

Yes. From the Outlook add-in, save the open email, with or without its attachments, to any Vault folder or to a matter's folder.

Download the manifest from the Xegality for Outlook page. In Outlook on the web or the new Outlook, open an email and go to Apps → Get Add-ins → My add-ins → Add a custom add-in → Add from file. Xegality then appears on every email.

Yes. Sign in to Xegality from the add-in pane. If you are new, you can create an account from the same screen.

Yes. Each case keeps its parties, timeline, hearings, drafts, documents and invoices together. Closed and completed cases move to Matter History, where you can still open them.

Add the CNR number to a case's Court tab, or follow it from the Dataroom. Xegality fetches the court record when you open the case and notifies you of new orders, judgments and hearing dates, so you don't have to check eCourts every day.

The Case Number Record is the unique 16-character number the court system gives every case registered on eCourts. You will find it on the court's case status page and on most orders.

Yes. For cases you track, Xegality notifies you of new hearing dates and reminds you the day before a hearing. Appointments can also send you a WhatsApp reminder the day before.

Yes. Create GST-ready, branded invoices linked to a case. One invoice can mix fees, hourly work and expenses. Clients view and download them from their dashboard and pay you directly, using the bank and UPI details on your invoice.

Yes. File Tracking records where each paper file is and who has it. You can also ask the WhatsApp assistant where a file is, and archive the files of closed matters.

Yes. Message Xegality's WhatsApp Business number from your usual WhatsApp to check case status and hearing dates, find a physical file, see your appointments, ask legal questions or get a summary of a document you send. Your number is linked with a one-time code.

Yes. Workflows chain steps such as reading a document, researching, drafting and saving to the Vault into one run. Steps that create a client or a case pause until you approve, and no coding is needed.

Yes. The Website Builder publishes a site for you or your firm from a template you can change at any time, on your own domain if you add a CNAME record, with page views and contact-form submissions in its analytics.

Yes. Each case keeps its hearing dates, client, documents, physical file and invoices together, and for cases you link by CNR the next date, stage and new orders come in from eCourts. Your diary is the same in the browser and in the Android app.

Yes. Filter cases by type and priority, or search by case name, client or CNR, so the matters that need attention first are easy to find.

Yes. Every case has a timeline of hearings and events and an activity log of what changed, so anyone picking up the matter can follow its history.

Yes. Client chat works in real time, with documents and photos, read receipts and unread badges, and you can see when a client is online. You can also start a conversation from the case page.

Yes. Delete it for everyone in the conversation, and it is removed from your client's side of the chat as well.

Yes. Store the client's GST number and address with their contact details when you add them, so their billing details are on record when you raise an invoice.

Yes. Switch between day, week and month views to plan around court days. Each appointment records the client's name and contact, the reason, the date and time, and how long it will take.

Yes. Mark each appointment completed, rescheduled or cancelled, and search by client name or reason to find any past or upcoming meeting.

Yes. Pick the GST rate for each invoice, or none at all, and Xegality works out the tax and the total for you.

Yes. Set up your invoice template once with your logo, colours, bank account, IFSC, UPI ID and authorised signatory, and every invoice carries them, so clients know how to pay you.

Yes. Send the invoice by email with its PDF attached, straight from Xegality. The client can also view and download it from their dashboard, under the case it belongs to.

Each invoice shows whether it is a draft, sent, paid, overdue or refunded. Mark invoices paid or overdue as things change, and the invoice list shows what is still outstanding.

Yes. Check a file out with the person's name, the reason and the expected return date, and check it back in when it returns. Files not returned on time are flagged overdue, and you get a WhatsApp reminder naming the file and who has it.

Yes. Every file keeps a location history, with an entry for each move, and a checkout history showing who had it, why and when it was due back.

Yes. Add the digital documents to the physical file's record, so the paper file and its copies sit together. You can also note the next hearing date on the file, so files needed in court are easy to spot.

District court orders and judgments usually print it at the top or bottom of the first page. It also shows on the eCourts case status page when you search by case number, party name, advocate name or FIR number, and the court's filing counter can give it to you.

Take MHAU010012342023: MH is the state code, AU the district code, 01 the court establishment, 001234 the case's serial number in that establishment, and 2023 the year the case was registered.

Yes. The free CNR checker on our case status guide checks the format, four letters followed by twelve digits, splits the number into its parts and opens eCourts with the CNR copied, ready to paste.

Usually because of a typing mistake, spaces or hyphens in the number, a case that has been filed but not yet registered, or court data that has not been uploaded yet. Check the number against an order and try again later.

Yes. High Courts on the eCourts system issue CNRs just as district courts do, and Xegality tracks both. Add the High Court CNR to the case's Court tab in the same way.

No. Supreme Court cases are not on the eCourts CNR search; the Supreme Court's own website finds them by diary number, case number or party name. You can still search Supreme Court judgments in the Dataroom.

Yes. A case's Court tab can hold more than one CNR, for example the trial court matter and the High Court appeal, and each is tracked with its own court record and alerts.

No. Follow a CNR from the Dataroom and you get alerts for new orders and hearing dates without opening a case. Add it to a case's Court tab when you want the record kept with the rest of the matter.

Yes. Enter the CNR in the new case form to fill in the case details from eCourts, and court tracking starts as soon as the case is created. You can also add a CNR later from the case's Court tab.

The court record from eCourts: the parties and their advocates, the case stage, the court and judge, the next hearing date, the hearing history and the orders.

Yes. Orders listed against a tracked case open as PDFs that you can read or download, wherever the court has uploaded the PDF to eCourts.

Yes. AI order analysis sets out what the court decided, the directions it gave and what happens next, with the original order a click away. Read the original before you rely on the summary.

It is fetched from eCourts, so it is as current as the court's own record, and you can press Refresh on a case to fetch it again. Some courts upload orders and data late, so check the court's record before relying on it for anything urgent.

Yes. When a case is tracked by CNR, your client sees the same court record in their free client dashboard and sets their own alerts, separately from yours.

Yes. For each tracked CNR you set your own alerts: hearing and order alerts, which cover new dates, orders and judgments and a reminder the day before, and an optional daily morning update with the next hearing, stage and latest order. Your choices don't affect anyone else's.

Use a workflow for work you repeat the same way, such as client intake, because it runs the same fixed steps every time. Xegality AI suits one-off tasks: it plans its own steps and asks you to approve the plan before it starts.

Yes. Add a branch and the run follows a different path depending on a choice or a decision the AI makes, so a civil matter and a criminal matter need not go through the same steps.

A run can start from documents you upload, files already in your Vault or text you type. At the end, the results can be saved to your Vault or downloaded as a file, such as a PDF.

Autopilot is for a new matter's document bundle: it creates the case and a Vault folder and drafts the documents you pick. A workflow is a series of steps you set up once and run whenever the same kind of work comes in.

Message Xegality's WhatsApp Business number from the phone number on your Xegality account and type verify. Enter the one-time code it sends in the same chat and your number is linked; other numbers can't be linked. Type help to see what the assistant can do.

A reminder the day before each scheduled appointment, with the client, time and reason, and a reminder when a physical file you registered is overdue for return, naming the file and who has it.

Five templates: Classic, Modern, Minimal, Elegant and Bold. Then pick a colour palette, a font and a button style. You can switch templates at any time and keep the content you have entered.

No. Your site can go live on a free xegality.com subdomain. If you have a domain, connect it from the Domain tab by adding the CNAME record shown there with your domain provider.

DNS changes can take up to 48 hours to spread. Check that the record at your domain provider matches the one shown in the Domain tab, then use Verify domain to check again.

Yes. The Preview tab shows the site as visitors will see it while you edit. Publish when you are ready, and unpublish it at any time to take it offline.

In the website's Analytics tab, once the site is published. It shows your page views and the messages visitors send through your contact form.

Sections for your services, credentials, team, a photo gallery, FAQs, blog posts, contact details including a WhatsApp number, and SEO settings. Fill in only the ones you need.

It is billed per member. The firm owner buys seats for the whole team, every member gets every feature, and the owner can add members later.

No. The firm owner grants each member specific capabilities, such as viewing or editing cases, using AI or uploading to the Vault. The server enforces these permissions, not just the menu.

Inviting and removing members, setting permissions, the firm profile, the website builder and billing.

Yes. Xegality AI is a separate permission, so the firm owner decides which members can run it.

Removing a member ends their access to the firm's workspace. Cases, drafts and files belong to the firm, so they stay with the firm.

As the owner, open Settings → Organization and enter their email address. They receive an email to create their Xegality account and join the firm, and you then choose what they can access.

No. Firm invitations can only go to people who don't have a Xegality account yet, because the invited person creates their account from the invitation email.

Yes to both. Each person on the team takes one seat, the owner included, and an invitation holds a seat while it is pending. When every seat is in use, add seats from Billing before you invite more people.

By default a new member can view the firm's cases, drafts, clients and Vault. Anything more, such as creating or editing cases, uploading files or using AI, stays off until you switch it on.

Viewing, creating, editing and deleting cases; viewing and adding clients; viewing, creating and editing drafts; viewing and uploading to the Vault; and access to AI, Xegality AI, Workflows, the Dataroom, Lens, Index, the Legal Library and File Tracking. Billing, the team and the website stay with the owner.

Yes. The owner can switch any capability on or off for a member at any time from Settings → Organization. The server checks permissions on every request, so the change applies straight away.

Yes. The firm owner can open the workspace as any member to check what they can see and what is on their plate. A banner shows whose workspace you are in, and Exit takes you back to your own.

Yes. Member stats show each person's active cases, drafts by status, AI use this month and Vault files and storage, so you can rebalance work before it piles up.

Yes. Choose who a case is assigned to when you open it, and reassign it from the case list or the case page when plans change. Only members of your firm's workspace can be picked.

Not while the firm still has other members. Transfer ownership or remove them first, as the Privacy Policy explains. Work that belongs to the firm stays with the firm.

Yes. Choose Corporate when you sign up. It creates a company account for your legal team, and the free trial starts straight away, with no card needed.

Your company's registered name, type of company, industry, size, city and state. Address, PIN code, year established, CIN or LLPIN, GSTIN, PAN and website are optional. Then you add your own details as account owner and confirm your mobile and email with one-time codes.

The person who signs up becomes the account owner. The owner manages the company's team and billing: inviting and removing members, choosing what each of them can access, and buying seats.

Per member. The account owner buys a seat for each person on the legal team, their own included, and pays for the whole team. Company plans are priced before GST, which is added at checkout.

It is built for in-house counsel, covering contracts, matters and Xegality AI for your legal team. The Pricing page lists what each plan includes and its current limits.

If a plan has a minimum, the Pricing page shows it next to the price, as from a set number of members. Minimums and prices can change, so check the Corporate tab on the Pricing page for the current terms.

Yes. The account owner invites each colleague by email from Settings → Organization, and they create their own Xegality account from the invitation. Each person takes one seat on the company's plan.

No. Independent lawyers fill in a practice profile, but a Corporate account uses the company details entered at sign-up as its profile, and colleagues who join by invitation can start work straight away.

No. Client chat, client invoices, physical file tracking and the Website Builder are for lawyers and law firms who act for clients. A Corporate account is set up for a company's own legal work, so these are left out.

Yes. Add a case's CNR to the matter's Court tab and Xegality follows it on eCourts, with alerts for new orders and hearing dates. This works for district court and High Court cases on the eCourts system.

Yes. Clients track their case, review what their lawyer shares, message them and use Xegality AI for free, for good.

See each of your cases with its drafts, documents, invoices and deadlines, check what is pending from you, review and sign drafts, chat with your lawyer and keep your own files in a private vault with AI Explain.

Your lawyer adds you as a client. They enter your details and Xegality sends a one-time password to your phone; once you confirm it, your account is created and linked. If you already have an account, they can link you by your Xegality ID.

Yes. Each firm you work with appears under Your legal teams, and you can switch between them from one account.

No. You can view and download your lawyer's invoices in the dashboard, but you pay your lawyer directly, using the details on the invoice. Xegality does not collect or hold that money.

A paid plan for clients, at ₹149 a month. It gives you more Xegality AI answers and storage every month. The free account stays free.

Yes. From any client account you can apply for more than 40 services, such as GST registration and returns, company and LLP registration, Udyam, FSSAI and trademarks. Xegality's CA team reviews each application, contacts you and handles the work, and you can follow every step.

Yes. Sign up and choose Consumer, which is the free client account. When your lawyer manages your matter in Xegality, they can add you to it and the case appears in your dashboard.

Yes, though following a case, reviewing drafts and seeing invoices here needs your lawyer to run the matter in Xegality. Without that, you can still ask Xegality AI general legal questions, keep files in your private vault and apply for compliance services.

It shows what your lawyer is waiting on from you, such as a draft to review or sign, fields to fill in or a document to upload. It sits next to the deadlines your lawyer sets, so you can see what to do and by when.

On your client dashboard. Updates appear in one activity feed, the hearing dates and deadlines shown are the ones your lawyer sets, and each case has its own page with its drafts, documents and invoices.

No. The client dashboard is free for as many cases as your lawyers share with you. Your lawyer's fees are agreed directly between you and your lawyer.

Your own space for personal documents, kept apart from the files your lawyer shares with you. Upload a notice, an agreement or any other paper and use AI Explain to understand it in plain language.

Open a document in your private vault and AI Explain sets out what it is and what it means for you, in plain language. You can then ask about it, for example what a particular clause lets the other side do.

No. AI Explain helps you understand a document, but its answer is general information, not legal advice, and it can be wrong. Check anything important with your lawyer before you act on it.

Yes. The chat with your lawyer works in real time and takes attachments, so your questions and the papers you send stay with the case instead of being scattered across your phone.

Your lawyer must keep your information confidential as part of their professional duty; Xegality does not create or guarantee legal privilege. Authorised Xegality staff may review a message if it is reported to us or if we need to investigate misuse.

Select any clause in a draft your lawyer has shared and you get a plain-language explanation of what it means for you. The draft also opens with a short AI summary, and clauses flagged for risk are marked so you know where to read closely.

When your lawyer sends a new version, the review screen shows exactly what changed since the last one, so you can check the changes without comparing the two documents yourself.

Comment on the text or suggest a change in the review screen, then choose to request changes instead of approving. Your lawyer receives your suggestions and decides what goes into the next version.

Yes. Your lawyer sees when you open the draft, suggest a change, fill in fields, approve and sign, as it happens. They can also set a deadline for your review, which you see on your dashboard.

Please raise it with your lawyer. Invoices come from your lawyer and are paid to them directly; Xegality does not collect or hold that money, so corrections and refunds are between you and your lawyer.

Yes. Ask in English, Hindi or Hinglish and you get an answer with citations to the sources behind it. It is general information rather than advice on your matter, so speak to an advocate before you act on it.

The free account includes a set number of Xegality AI questions every month, shown on the Clients tab of the Pricing page. If you need more, Xegality Plus raises the monthly allowance.

No. Following your cases, reviewing and signing drafts, messaging your lawyer and asking Xegality AI are all part of the free account. Xegality Plus is for people who want more AI answers, documents explained and cases tracked each month.

No. Xegality Plus raises what you can do with Xegality's software. It does not include a lawyer's services or legal advice, and any lawyer you engage agrees their fees with you directly.

Yes. From your free client account you can look up lawyers in the directory and message them. The directory lists only lawyers who chose to be listed, and the details in each profile are entered by the lawyer.

No. Xegality does not verify, vet or endorse any lawyer, so make your own checks before you engage one. Whether you hire a lawyer, the advice they give and their fees are between you and them; Xegality is not a party to that engagement.

It is how you apply for Indian business-compliance services, such as GST, company and LLP work, licences and trademarks, from your free client dashboard. Xegality's CA team works on each application, and you can follow it until it is done.

You can apply to register a private limited company, one person company, LLP, partnership firm or producer company, and for GST, Udyam, MSME, FSSAI, Shop and Establishment and professional tax registration, an Import Export Code or a digital signature certificate.

Yes. The catalogue covers appointing or removing a director, a change of address, increasing authorised capital, converting a private company to a public one, changes to an LLP agreement, adding a designated partner, LLP annual filings and closing an LLP.

Yes. The catalogue also lists trademark search, registration and renewal, collaboration and royalty agreements, due diligence for fundraising, NGO and IRDAI registration, and ISO certification.

Sign in to your free client account, open Applications, choose the service, add a phone number and a note about what you need, and submit. Your name comes from your account, and the CA team contacts you for anything else it needs.

Pending review means the CA team hasn't picked it up yet, In progress means work has started, Action required means the team is waiting on you, and Completed means the work is done.

Yes. Each application shows the CA it is assigned to, its current status and a timeline with the date each step was completed, so you don't have to chase an update by phone.

Yes. Chartered accountants and CA firms get a CA workspace for GST returns, ITC reconciliation with GSTR-2B, TDS, income tax, notices, books and audit. AI prepares the working, and a member of your practice reviews and approves it.

No. Xegality is not a GSP or ERI. It prepares the working, a summary for the client and, where the portal accepts one, an upload file; you file on the portal yourself and record the ARN in Xegality.

Yes. The Tally connector is a small Windows program for the PC that runs TallyPrime. It syncs the companies you map and sends back only the postings you have approved, and you can also upload Tally exports by hand.

No. Rates, thresholds and due dates come from cited rule packs, not from the AI. Every AI feature can be switched off in Settings → AI, and the tools that do arithmetic, matching and deadlines keep working without it.

Yes. A CA firm invites its team into seats as owner, partner, manager, article assistant or staff, and the owner sets what each role can do. CA firm plans are priced per member.

Yes. A chartered accountant or CA firm that signs up gets a free trial of every CA tool, with no card needed. Plans and current prices for CAs and CA firms are on the Pricing page.

My CA is the part of the free client dashboard where you follow your chartered accountant's work: document requests, items to review, filed returns, invoices and notices. Your CA can connect your account by your Xegality ID, mobile number or email (or create a free account for you, which you sign in to with a one-time code), or send you an invitation to accept. You're told when they connect you, it costs you nothing, and you can disconnect any time from My CA.

Open it under My CA and approve it with your typed name and a code emailed to you. Once your CA has filed it, you can see the return with its ARN and acknowledgement.

Use the Pay by UPI link on the invoice under My CA. It pays your CA's own UPI ID, so the money goes to your CA directly, not to Xegality.

Xegality AI with citations, the judgment Dataroom with India, USA and EDGAR tabs, AI help for your studies and your own student profile. Student Pro adds more AI and storage, plus sessions with mentors.

Student plans start at ₹199 a month, with cheaper yearly plans and a 7-day free trial.

Yes. Students can book paid one-to-one sessions with mentors. You get a full refund automatically if the mentor declines or cancels, or if you cancel more than 24 hours before the session.

Yes. With a college licence, every student gets Student Pro, paid by the college, together with the campus ERP, a verified campus and placements.

Choose Law student when you create your Xegality account. Your free trial starts straight away with no card needed, and when it ends you pick a student plan to keep going.

Student Basic covers research, case studies and AI help for your studies. Student Pro adds more AI and storage, plus mentors. The Pricing page shows each plan's current price and allowances.

Exam Prep is the revision section of the student dashboard. It has practice questions, mock tests and a daily quiz.

Research, the student version of the Dataroom, is for searching and reading judgments yourself. Xegality AI searches the same kinds of sources for you and writes an answer with citations you can open.

Yes. Research in the student dashboard searches Supreme Court and High Court judgments with a court filter. Read a judgment in full in the reader, then export it to PDF or Word for your project.

Yes. Research lets you look up a case's current status, orders and next hearing date from court records, the same way lawyers do in the Dataroom.

Yes. The USA tab in Research searches US federal and state court opinions from CourtListener, and the EDGAR tab finds US-listed companies and their SEC filings, with an AI summary of a filing.

Yes. Ask about a concept, such as the basic structure doctrine, in English, Hindi or Hinglish. The answer cites the judgments behind it, so you can go straight to the cases.

Yes. Your chats are saved in your session history, and you can pin the ones you return to often so they are easy to find.

Yes. The IPC → BNS converter in the student dashboard shows where an IPC section went in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, and back. Converters for IPC to BNS, CrPC to BNSS and the Evidence Act to BSA are also free for anyone on our Tools page.

Mentors are lawyers who offer one-to-one sessions to law students through Xegality. Mentors come with Student Pro, and you book a session from the Mentors page of your student dashboard.

You pay online through Razorpay when you book a paid session. The slot you chose is held for 15 minutes while you complete the payment.

You get a full refund automatically if the mentor hasn't confirmed your request by the session's start time. The money goes back to the payment method you used, usually within 5–7 working days.

No. If you cancel 24 hours or less before the session starts, or don't attend, the fee is not refunded. The booking screen tells you whether cancelling would be refunded before you confirm.

You get a full refund automatically if the slot was no longer available when your payment went through. The money goes back to the payment method you used.

Write to [email protected] from the email address on your Xegality account, with the date of the session and the payment details, and we will look into it.

Only with the consent of a parent or guardian. Xegality is meant for adults, and when you sign up you confirm that you are 18 or older or that your parent or guardian has agreed.

No. College licences are arranged with our team rather than bought online. Book a demo and we will walk you through Student Pro for your students, the campus ERP, the verified campus and placements, and talk through a licence for your college.

Yes. Fees paid through a college's Xegality ERP pages go straight to the college's own account, not to Xegality.

The college. Because those fees go to the college's own account, the college decides its refunds, and Xegality's Refund Policy does not cover them.

The college. Content a college puts into Xegality, such as students' and guardians' contact details, attendance, fees and results, is processed on the college's behalf and under its instructions.

No. Student and guardian records a college enters are used only for that college's work with its students, and Xegality does not show targeted advertising to anyone.

Yes. A college can give access to its students, their guardians and its staff. What the college puts into Xegality is processed on its behalf, and anyone with access can contact the college or us about it.

No. Google Analytics never runs in the student, parent or college areas, and Xegality doesn't count visits from student, parent or college accounts.

Records the college keeps about its students stay with the college. Deleting a student's own account does not remove them from the college's records.

No. Placements is one of the tools that come with a college licence, but Xegality does not promise jobs, interviews or offers to any student.

Write to [email protected]. Xegality is meant for adults and needs a parent's or guardian's consent for anyone under 18, so we will help you review or delete your child's data.

Independent lawyers from ₹999 a month; law firms ₹2,100 per member a month plus GST; companies ₹3,499 per member a month plus GST; chartered accountants ₹1,499 a month; law students from ₹199 a month. Clients use Xegality free. Paying for 6 or 12 months up front costs less per month, and the Pricing page always shows the current prices.

Every lawyer, law firm, company and student account gets 7 days of every feature from sign-up, with no card. When it ends, pick a plan to keep going; your matters, drafts and files stay where they are.

Plans billed per member, for law firms, companies and CA firms, are priced before GST, and 18% GST is added at checkout. Every other price includes GST.

Yes. Choose the period on the Pricing page. Longer periods cost less per month than paying monthly and are paid once up front.

No. Each plan is a single prepaid payment for the period you choose. We don't store your card or set up automatic charges, so when the period ends the plan ends unless you buy it again.

Cancel at any time from the Billing page. Your plan stays active, with all its features, until the end of the period you paid for.

Because each period is paid in advance, the unused part of a period is not refunded when you cancel. We refund in full if you were charged twice or the wrong amount, or if a payment went through but your plan couldn't be activated. Refunds go back to the payment method you used, usually within 5–7 working days.

Yes. A new plan starts straight away, and the value of the unused days of your current plan is taken off its price; you see the credit before you pay. If you buy the same plan again early, the new period starts when the current one ends.

UPI, cards, net banking and wallets through Razorpay. Prices are in Indian rupees.

Add a storage pack to any live plan from the Billing page, or build a Custom plan with the modules, AI pack and storage you need.

Yes. For many members, onboarding help or billing by invoice, talk to our sales team. Colleges can give Student Pro to every student, paid by the college, with the campus ERP, a verified campus and placements.

It ends on its end date unless you buy it again, because plans never renew automatically. Its features are then paused, but your data stays as it is; choose a plan again to keep using every feature.

Yes. Xegality notifies you shortly before your free trial or plan ends, and again once it has ended. Nothing renews automatically, so choose a plan yourself if you want to keep going.

No. The free trial needs no payment and no card, so nothing can be charged when it ends. Choose a plan if you want to keep going; otherwise there is nothing to cancel.

Yes. The owner of a law firm or company plan can add seats at any time. Extra seats are priced only for the rest of the plan's current period, and they end with that period.

Until the end of your plan's current period. A storage pack is added to the plan you are on, priced only for the rest of that period, and ends with it, so add one again with your next plan if you still need the space.

A plan you put together yourself, so you pay only for the tools you use. In the app you pick the modules, an AI pack and the storage you need, for yourself or for each member of your firm. The Refund Policy covers Custom plans like any other plan.

Yes. Every plan, seat or storage pack payment is listed in your payment history on the Billing page (Plan & billing for client accounts), with a Receipt button that downloads a PDF showing the GST. The receipt also carries the Razorpay payment ID.

Not straight away. If the unused value of your current plan is more than the new plan costs, you can switch when your current plan ends, or choose a longer plan instead.

Your plan switches on by itself as soon as the payment is confirmed, so there is no need to pay again. If the payment is never completed, any amount blocked or debited is returned to you by your bank.

Yes. A failed payment never reaches Xegality, and your bank or payment provider reverses it automatically within the Reserve Bank of India's timelines for failed transactions, usually within a few working days. If it hasn't come back by then, contact your bank with the transaction reference and write to us so we can help.

Email [email protected] from the email address on your account. Include your name, the date and amount of the payment, the Razorpay payment ID (it starts with pay_) or order ID if you have it, and what went wrong. We aim to reply within 2 working days.

No. If your payment goes through but the plan, seats or storage you paid for can't be activated, for example because your plan changed while you were paying, we refund it in full automatically.

No. Refunds are always for the full amount paid and go back to the payment method you used, through Razorpay. Once issued, a refund usually reaches your account in 5–7 working days, depending on your bank.

No. You pay your lawyer directly, so refunds of their fees are between you and the lawyer. Fees paid through a college's or institution's Xegality ERP pages go to its own account, and the institution decides its refunds.

Yes, with reasonable notice, as the End-User License Agreement allows. The Pricing page and checkout always show the current prices, and because plans are prepaid and never renew automatically, you are never charged again without choosing to pay.

Documents you upload are stored in a private Amazon S3 bucket in AWS's Mumbai region, and our servers run in Mumbai. The account database, with profiles, cases and chats, is hosted on AWS in Singapore. When you use an AI feature, the text for that request goes to the AI provider. The Privacy Policy lists every provider.

Only if you let it. Turn on “Anonymise data before AI processing” in Settings → Privacy, and client and company names, phone numbers, emails, Aadhaar, PAN, card numbers and IP addresses are swapped for placeholders before a request goes to the AI, then put back in the answer.

Passwords are hashed with bcrypt, so nobody at Xegality can read them. Sign-in tokens live in secure, HttpOnly cookies, and repeated failed sign-ins from one IP address trigger a 24-hour block.

Not at present, and we won't suggest otherwise. The Security page describes the controls in the product today. Send your security questionnaire to [email protected] and we'll answer it.

Go to Settings or Profile → Delete account, in the app or on the web, and confirm. You are signed out everywhere straight away, and your account and its data are erased permanently after 30 days. Work that belongs to a law firm or company you are a member of stays with it.

Email [email protected] with “Security report” in the subject line. The Security page explains what to include.

No. Each firm is its own workspace: its cases, drafts, Vault files, indexes and Lens trackers belong to it, and membership is checked on every request. Inside the firm, members see only what the owner allows them to.

Yes. Team invitation links expire and work only once, so a link can't be used again after someone has joined with it. If an invitation has expired, the firm owner can send a new one.

Xegality AI treats text inside documents as data, never as instructions, and tells you where it finds instructions that look like tampering. It also asks you to approve its plan before it acts, so nothing it proposes changes your work until a person approves it.

No. Sharing is opt-in: a chat share link, a client draft review or your firm website goes out only when you create or publish it.

Payments go through Razorpay's checkout, so you enter your card and UPI details with Razorpay, not with Xegality. We keep the payment reference, not your card details, and we never set up automatic charges.

Data travels over encrypted connections (HTTPS/TLS). Passwords are stored only as bcrypt hashes and sign-in codes only as keyed hashes, and connected-app tokens and mentor payout details are encrypted at rest (AES-256-GCM). Inside firms, per-member permissions are checked by the server on every request.

If a breach affects your data, we will tell you and the authorities as the law requires. No system is perfectly secure, so the Security page sets out exactly which controls are in place today.

Both connect through Google's own consent screen, and Drive import asks for read-only access. Google tokens are encrypted at rest on our servers, the refresh token never leaves them, and disconnecting deletes the stored tokens. You can also revoke access from your Google account's permissions page.

For lawyers who connect it, Xegality creates, updates and deletes the events for appointments booked in Xegality on your primary calendar, and reads your events so you can see your schedule beside your appointments. It never changes or deletes events it did not create, and calendar data is not sent to any AI service.

Repeated failed password or OTP sign-ins from one IP address trigger a 24-hour block. Wait for it to end before trying again, and use Forgot password if you are unsure of your password. If you still can't get in, email [email protected] from your registered email.

Change your password in Settings straight away: every other device is then signed out, and any AI assistant you connected, such as Claude or ChatGPT, is disconnected. Then email [email protected] from your registered email to tell us about the unauthorised use.

No. Xegality does not create or guarantee privilege. Confidentiality and legal professional privilege between you and your lawyer are part of the lawyer's professional duties, as our Terms explain.

What you give us, such as your name, email, mobile number, profile and work details, the cases, documents, chats and drafts you add, and the plans you buy. We also keep sign-in and security records and activity logs, and we count your visits only if you turn on Usage analytics.

We do not sell personal data or use it for targeted advertising. We share it only with providers that help run the service, such as hosting, AI, email, SMS and payments, giving each only what it needs under contract, and when the law requires it, for example a valid court order.

Google (Gemini, and Cloud Vision to read text in scanned documents) and Anthropic (Claude). The text needed for a request is sent only when you use an AI feature, only for that request, and under terms that do not allow the provider to train its models on it.

Some of it does. Uploaded files and our servers are in Mumbai, but the account database is in Singapore, and AI requests are processed mainly in the United States. Indian law allows these transfers, our providers are bound by contract to protect the data, and we will stop transfers to any country the Government of India restricts.

Your account and its content are kept while the account is open and erased 30 days after you delete it. Detailed activity logs and website page-view logs are kept for 90 days, AI usage records for 13 months, contact-form enquiries for 2 years, and tax and payment records for as long as the law requires.

Work that belongs to a law firm or company you are a member of stays with it, and records a college keeps about its students stay with the college. Records the law requires us to keep, such as tax and payment records, are kept for that period, and copies in our providers' backups are replaced on their normal cycle.

Yes. You normally confirm the deletion with your password; if you sign in without one, we email you a code instead. You can also ask us to delete your account by writing to [email protected].

You can ask for a summary of the data we hold and who we shared it with, correct it, have it erased, withdraw consent, nominate someone to act for you if you die or cannot act, and complain to our Grievance Officer. Write to [email protected] from your account's email address; we may ask you to confirm it is you.

Write to our Grievance Officer at [email protected]. We acknowledge complaints within 24 hours and resolve them within 15 days, and if you are not satisfied with our answer, you can complain to the Data Protection Board of India.

Only with a parent's or guardian's consent: Xegality is meant for adults, and sign-up asks you to confirm you are 18 or older or have that consent. A parent who believes their child is using Xegality without consent can write to [email protected], and we will help review or delete the child's data.

We use the cookies needed to keep you signed in. Google Analytics runs only on our public website and only for visitors who are not signed in, never inside the apps or dashboards, and you can block analytics cookies in your browser without affecting the service.

Only if you turn them on in Settings → Privacy; they are off until you do. Every marketing email has a one-click unsubscribe link. Service messages, such as sign-in codes, receipts and security notices, are always sent.

Your account stops working until you turn it back on, but nothing is deleted; to erase your data, delete your account instead. You can also turn off just AI analysis, document storage or third-party integrations, and only the features that need them stop working.

Whenever you ask, a connected assistant can read and add to the Xegality data your own account can reach, such as cases, clients, hearings, drafts and Vault files, and its provider handles that data under your agreement with them. We record which tool was used and when, not your conversation, and you can disconnect it in Settings → Connected apps.

Yes. Xegality is on Google Play for Android, and the iPhone app is coming soon to the App Store. Your cases, drafts and files are the same on the web and in the app.

Yes. Add the Xegality connector to Claude and ask about your cases, hearings, drafts and Vault files, or search Indian case law, right in the chat. It works in Claude on the web, desktop and mobile, and in Claude Code.

Yes. Connect Xegality to ChatGPT to look up your cases and clients, see what is listed this week, check court status by CNR, search your Vault and Indian judgments, and save a draft ChatGPT writes into Draft Studio.

Word and Outlook through add-ins, plus OneDrive, SharePoint and Microsoft Teams.

Yes. Import files from Google Drive through Google's own file picker; Xegality only sees the files you pick and never changes your Drive. Connect Google Calendar to see your appointments next to your schedule.

The Integrations page lists the tools Xegality connects to today and the ones on our roadmap.

In Claude, open Customize → Connectors, choose Add custom connector, name it Xegality and paste the connector URL from our Claude page. Sign in to Xegality when the page opens and click Allow. You need a Claude plan that lets you add custom connectors.

Yes. An Owner adds the connector once in Organization settings → Connectors. Each member then connects their own Xegality account and sees only their own work.

Add the server with the claude mcp add command shown on our Claude page, then type /mcp in Claude Code, pick xegality and choose Authenticate. Sign in to Xegality in your browser, click Allow and go back to the terminal.

Yes. Add and connect Xegality in Claude on the web or Claude Desktop first. Then open the Claude app on iPhone or Android with the same Claude account, and Xegality is already in the tools menu.

In ChatGPT, add a custom MCP server named Xegality with the connector URL from our ChatGPT page and choose OAuth. Sign in to Xegality and click Allow, then type @ in a chat and pick Xegality. On Business and Enterprise plans, your workspace admin decides whether custom MCP servers are allowed.

Only what your own Xegality account can see, with your firm's permissions and your plan's limits. Lawyers and firms get the full set of tools; clients and students get the parts that apply to them.

No. Xegality records which tool was used and when, not your conversation. What the assistant reads from Xegality, such as case details or document text, becomes part of that chat and is handled under your own agreement with its provider, so share client material in line with your duty of confidentiality.

Open Settings → Connected apps and choose Disconnect. It stops working with your account straight away. Changing your Xegality password also disconnects every connected assistant.

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A written letter, usually sent by an advocate, that tells the other side what they owe or must do and what you will do if they don't. It puts them on record before you file a suit or start other proceedings.

For recovery of money, 15 days from receipt is common, with clear details of how to pay. Where a law fixes the period itself, as for a cheque-bounce notice or a notice to the Government, follow that law.

Under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, the notice must be sent within 30 days of receiving the bank's return memo, and it gives the drawer 15 days to pay. Use a Section 138 notice, not a general recovery format.

Generally, yes. Section 80 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 requires two months' written notice before a suit against the Government or a public officer for acts in their official capacity. A suit for urgent relief can be filed without it only with the court's leave.

The noticee's correct name and address, the exact amount in figures and words, the invoice or agreement it arises from, the key dates and reminders, a demand with a time limit and payment details, what happens if it is ignored, and the advocate's signature and enrolment number.

Send it by Registered Post A.D. or Speed Post to the correct address, and keep the postal receipt, the tracking report and the returned A.D. card. A copy by email or WhatsApp adds to the record.

No. A notice does not stop limitation running. Under the Limitation Act, 1963, a claim for money is generally time-barred three years after it fell due, so keep that date in view when you send the notice.

Not where the dispute is purely civil. Threatening criminal proceedings over a civil money claim is a common mistake, and so is overstating the amount, because the notice will later be read alongside your plaint.

Usually, yes. Under Section 12A of the Commercial Courts Act, 2015, a commercial suit that does not seek urgent interim relief can be filed only after pre-institution mediation. A legal notice does not replace that step.

The written authority a party gives an advocate to appear, plead and act for them in a case. In civil cases, Order III Rule 4 of the Code of Civil Procedure requires the appointment to be in writing and filed in court.

Typically the power to sign, verify and file pleadings and applications, file and take back documents, obtain certified copies and engage another advocate when needed. The exact wording depends on the form your court or bar association uses.

Yes. Strike out powers you don't want to give, such as receiving money on your behalf, and make compromise, withdrawal or reference to arbitration subject to your written consent.

Yes, through an authorised officer. The signatory gives their designation and signs on the strength of a board resolution or authority letter. Firms and societies sign the same way, through an authorised person.

Leaving out the Advocate Welfare Fund stamp, which can get it returned by the registry; filing a new one without the earlier advocate's no-objection or the court's leave; and giving powers, such as to compromise or withdraw money, that the client did not intend.

No. Many courts and bar associations sell a printed vakalatnama with the welfare stamp attached, and higher courts often prescribe their own format. Use that form where it exists and treat a sample as a guide to its contents.

A written statement of facts that the deponent swears or affirms to be true before an authorised officer, such as a Notary Public, an Oath Commissioner or a Magistrate. Courts, government offices, banks and universities ask for them.

The deponent's full name, parentage, age, occupation and address as on their ID; short numbered paragraphs with one fact each; the purpose; a verification clause; the deponent's signature on each page; and attestation with seal and date.

Yes. It can be prosecuted as false evidence under Sections 227 and 229 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, which replaced Sections 191 and 193 of the IPC. State only what you know or believe to be true.

No. An affidavit states facts. Opinions, arguments and legal conclusions do not belong in it, and the verification clause should match the paragraphs it covers.

Usually not. An affidavit states the purpose it is made for, and many authorities want a recent one. Make a fresh affidavit for the new purpose.

In front of the Notary, Oath Commissioner or Magistrate, after they have identified the deponent. Signing beforehand is a common mistake. The deponent signs every page and at the end.

No. They are general formats for information, not legal advice. Adapt each one to your facts, your court and your State's rules, and have an advocate check it before you use it.

Yes. Describe the facts in English, Hindi or Hinglish and Xegality AI drafts the document, ready to edit, check for risks and citations, and share with your client for approval.

On 1 July 2024. The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 replaced the Indian Penal Code, 1860. For proceedings pending, or acts done, before that date, see the repeal and savings clause in BNS Section 358.

The BNS has 358 sections; the IPC had 511. Sections were renumbered, and many were merged or split into sub-sections, so the old numbers no longer line up.

From the Correspondence Table and Comparison Summary of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS) to the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC), published by the Central Academy for Police Training (CAPT), Bhopal. Check the bare Act before you cite a section in court.

IPC Section 34 corresponds to BNS Section 3(5) (Acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table notes: It is now a sub-section of a larger section. No other change.

IPC Section 120B corresponds to BNS Section 61(2) (Criminal conspiracy punishment) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table notes: It is now a sub-section of a larger section.

IPC Section 147 corresponds to BNS Section 191(2) (Punishment for rioting) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table notes: It is now a sub-section of a larger section.

IPC Section 149 corresponds to BNS Section 190 (Every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table records no change in substance.

IPC Section 279 corresponds to BNS Section 281 (Rash driving or riding on a public way) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table records no change in substance.

IPC Section 294 corresponds to BNS Section 296 (Obscene acts and songs) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table notes: Fine is defined as up to one thousand rupees.

IPC Section 302 corresponds to BNS Section 103(1) (Punishment for murder) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table notes: No Change, except IPC section is included as subsection in BNS.

IPC Section 304A corresponds to BNS Section 106(1) (Causing death by negligence) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table notes: It is now a sub-section of a larger section. Imprisonment is increased and offence by registered medical practitioner and its explanation are added.

IPC Section 304B corresponds to BNS Section 80 (Dowry death) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table records no change in substance.

IPC Section 306 corresponds to BNS Section 108 (Abetment of suicide) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table records no change in substance.

IPC Section 307 corresponds to BNS Section 109 (Attempt to murder) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.

IPC Section 323 corresponds to BNS Section 115(2) (Punishment for voluntarily causing hurt) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table notes: It is now a sub-section of a larger section. Fine is increased (which may extend to ten thousand rupees).

IPC Section 324 corresponds to BNS Section 118(1) (Voluntarily causing hurt or grievous hurt by dangerous weapons or means) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table notes: It is now a sub-section of a larger section. Fine is increased which may extend to twenty thousand rupees and words “'grievous hurt” are added in heading.

IPC Section 325 corresponds to BNS Section 117(2) (Punishment for voluntarily causing grievous hurt) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table notes: Formal changes but essence is same.

IPC Section 341 corresponds to BNS Section 126(2) (Punishment for Wrongful restraint) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table notes: It is now a sub-section of a larger section. Fine is increased from five hundred rupees to five thousand rupees.

IPC Section 354 corresponds to BNS Section 74 (Assault or use of criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table records no change in substance.

IPC Section 363 corresponds to BNS Section 137(2) (Punishment for kidnapping) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table notes: It is now a sub-section of a larger section.

IPC Section 376 corresponds to BNS Sections 64 and 65(1) (Punishment for rape) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table notes: Word “military” is replaced with “army”.

IPC Section 379 corresponds to BNS Section 303(2) (Punishment for theft) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table notes: Punishment for subsequent convictions is added.

IPC Section 380 corresponds to BNS Section 305 (Theft in a dwelling house, or means of transportation or place of worship, etc) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table notes: The definition enlarged "means of transportation or place of worship,' is added in the heading is reframed containing various sub-sections wherein sub-sections (b), (c), (d), (e) are new additions.

IPC Section 384 corresponds to BNS Section 308(2) (Extortion punishment) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table notes: It is now a sub-section of a larger section. The upper limit of the imprisonment is increased from three years to seven years.

IPC Section 392 corresponds to BNS Section 309(4) (Punishment for robbery) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table notes: It is now a sub-section of a larger section. No other change.

IPC Section 406 corresponds to BNS Section 316(2) (Punishment for criminal breach of trust) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table notes: It is now a sub-section of a larger section. The upper limit of the imprisonment is increased from three years to five years.

IPC Section 409 corresponds to BNS Section 316(5) (Criminal breach of trust by public servant, or by banker, merchant or agent) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table notes: It is now a sub-section of a larger section.

IPC Section 411 corresponds to BNS Section 317(2) (Dishonestly receiving stolen property) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table notes: It is now a sub-section of a larger section.

IPC Section 420 corresponds to BNS Section 318(4) (Cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table notes: It is now a sub-section of a larger section.

IPC Section 427 corresponds to BNS Section 324(4) (Mischief causing damage to the amount of twenty thousand rupees and more but less than one lakh rupees) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.

IPC Section 447 corresponds to BNS Section 329(3) (Criminal trespass punishment) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table notes: It is now a sub-section of a larger section. The fine increased from five hundred rupees to five thousand rupees.

IPC Section 448 corresponds to BNS Section 329(4) (trespass) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table notes: It is now a sub-section of a larger section. The upper limit of the fine has been increased from one thousand to five thousand rupees.

IPC Section 452 corresponds to BNS Section 333 (House-trespass after preparation for hurt, assault or wrongful restraint) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table records no change in substance.

IPC Section 465 corresponds to BNS Section 336(2) (Forgery punishment) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table notes: It is now a sub-section of a larger section. No other Change.

IPC Section 467 corresponds to BNS Section 338 (Forgery of valuable security, will, etc) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table records no change in substance.

IPC Section 468 corresponds to BNS Section 336(3) (Forgery for purpose of cheating) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table notes: It is now a sub-section of a larger section. No other Change.

IPC Section 471 corresponds to BNS Section 340(2) (Using as genuine a forged document or electronic record) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table notes: It is now a sub-section of a larger section.

IPC Section 498A corresponds to BNS Sections 85 and 86 (Husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.

IPC Section 504 corresponds to BNS Section 352 (Intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table notes: Words “in any manner” are added.

IPC Section 506 corresponds to BNS Section 351(2)/(3) (Criminal intimidation punishment) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table notes: It is now a sub-section of a larger section.

IPC Section 509 corresponds to BNS Section 79 (Word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table records no change in substance.

On 1 July 2024. The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 replaced the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. For proceedings pending, or acts done, before that date, see the repeal and savings clause in BNSS Section 531.

The BNSS has 531 sections; the CrPC had 484. Sections were renumbered, and many were merged or split into sub-sections, so the old numbers no longer line up.

From the Correspondence Table and Comparison Summary of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) to the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (CrPC), published by the Central Academy for Police Training (CAPT), Bhopal. Check the bare Act before you cite a section in court.

CrPC Section 41A corresponds to BNSS Section 35 (When police may arrest without warrant) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.

CrPC Section 125 corresponds to BNSS Section 144 (Order for maintenance of wives, children and parents) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table notes: "minor" is replaced by "child".

CrPC Section 154 corresponds to BNSS Section 173 (Information in cognizable cases) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table notes: By adding the words "irrespective of the area where the offence is committed”, the scope is expanded to lodge an FIR.

CrPC Section 156 corresponds to BNSS Section 175 (Police officer's power to investigate cognizable case) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table notes: A new proviso to subsection (1) is added.

CrPC Section 161 corresponds to BNSS Section 180 (Examination of witnesses by police) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table records no change in substance.

CrPC Section 164 corresponds to BNSS Section 183 (Recording of confessions and statements) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.

CrPC Section 167 corresponds to BNSS Section 187 (Procedure when investigation cannot be completed in twenty-four hours) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.

CrPC Section 173 corresponds to BNSS Section 193 (Report of police officer on completion of investigation) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.

CrPC Section 197 corresponds to BNSS Section 218 (Prosecution of Judges and public servants) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table notes: The BNS sections replace the corresponding IPC sections.

CrPC Section 200 corresponds to BNSS Section 223 (Examination of complainant) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table notes: The newly added first proviso to Section 223(1) provides that no cognizance of an offence shall be taken by the Magistrate without giving the accused an opportunity of being heard.

CrPC Section 313 corresponds to BNSS Section 351 (Power to examine the accused) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table records no change in substance.

CrPC Section 320 corresponds to BNSS Section 359 (Compounding of offences) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table notes: In the table of compoundable offences, the corresponding IPC sections are replaced by BNS sections. Section 497 IPC is excluded as it is not included in BNS. The rest remains same.

CrPC Section 389 corresponds to BNSS Section 430 (Suspension of sentence pending the appeal; release of appellant on bail) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table notes: "or bail bond" added.

CrPC Section 397 corresponds to BNSS Section 438 (Calling for records to exercise powers of revision) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table notes: The words "or bail bond " added and "bail" excluded.

CrPC Section 401 corresponds to BNSS Section 442 (High Court's powers of revision) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table notes: "pleader" is replaced by "advocate".

CrPC Section 437 corresponds to BNSS Section 480 (When bail may be taken in case of non-bailable offence) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table notes: In first proviso "is under the age of 16 years" is replaced by "child". In third proviso, "or for police custody beyond the first fifteen days" added. The words "without sureties" are excluded.

CrPC Section 438 corresponds to BNSS Section 482 (Direction for grant of bail to person apprehending arrest) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table records no change in substance.

CrPC Section 439 corresponds to BNSS Section 483 (Special powers of High Court or Court of Session regarding bail) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table records no change in substance.

CrPC Section 482 corresponds to BNSS Section 528 (Saving of inherent powers of High Court) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. The official comparison table records no change in substance.

On 1 July 2024. The Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 replaced the Indian Evidence Act, 1872. For proceedings pending, or acts done, before that date, see the repeal and savings clause in BSA Section 170.

The BSA has 170 sections; the IEA had 167. Sections were renumbered, and many were merged or split into sub-sections, so the old numbers no longer line up.

From the Correspondence Table and Comparison Summary of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 (BSA) and the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (IEA), published by the Central Academy for Police Training (CAPT), Bhopal. Check the bare Act before you cite a section in court.

IEA Section 3 corresponds to BSA Section 2 (Definitions) of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023. The official comparison table notes: Interpretation clauses, which include words and expressions and are interpreted in paragraphs in the IEA, are now defined under Section 2(1): Definitions, where each word and expression is given individual alphabetical clauses.

IEA Section 8 corresponds to BSA Section 6 (Motive, preparation and previous or subsequent conduct) of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023. The official comparison table notes: In explanation. And in illustrations "vakils" is replaced by "advocates" "man" is replaced by "person" and "ravished" is replaced by " raped".

IEA Section 24 corresponds to BSA Section 22(1) (Confession caused by inducement, threat, coercion or promise, when irrelevant in criminal proceeding) of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023. The official comparison table notes: The word "coercion" is added. Section 28 IEA and Section 29 IEA are given as provisos to Section 22 of the BSA. Heading is dropped as sections are included as provisos.

IEA Section 25 corresponds to BSA Section 23(1) (Confession to police officer) of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023. The official comparison table notes: Words "not to be proved" are excluded from heading.

IEA Section 27 corresponds to BSA Section Proviso to section 23 (How much of information received from accused may be proved) of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023. The official comparison table notes: Heading is dropped as the section is included as proviso.

IEA Section 32 corresponds to BSA Section 26 (Cases in which statement of relevant fact by person who is dead or cannot be found, etc., is relevant) of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023. The official comparison table notes: Word "namely" is added and headings of subsections are dropped. In illustration word "ravished" is replaced by "raped" and word "banya" is replaced by "business".

IEA Section 45 corresponds to BSA Section 39(1) (Opinions of experts) of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023. The official comparison table notes: Words "or any other field" are added. Thus, scope is expanded greatly.

IEA Section 63 corresponds to BSA Section 58 (Secondary evidence) of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023. The official comparison table notes: Words "means and" are excluded and three new clauses (vi), (vii), and (viii) are added.

IEA Section 65B corresponds to BSA Section 63 (Admissibility of electronic records) of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023. The official comparison table notes: Words "or semiconductor memory" "or any communication device or otherwise stored, recorded, or copied in any electronic form" is added in subsection (1). Words "communication device", "create" are added in subsection (2).

IEA Section 106 corresponds to BSA Section 109 (Burden of proving fact especially within knowledge) of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023. The official comparison table records no change in substance.

IEA Section 113A corresponds to BSA Section 117 (Presumption as to abetment of suicide by a married woman) of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023. The official comparison table notes: The words "section 498A of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860)" are replaced by "section 86 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023" in the explanation.

IEA Section 113B corresponds to BSA Section 118 (Presumption as to dowry death) of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023. The official comparison table notes: The words "section 304B of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860)" are replaced by "section 80 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023" in explanation.

IEA Section 114 corresponds to BSA Section 119 (Court may presume existence of certain facts) of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023. The official comparison table notes: Paragraph are numbered as subsections (1) and (2), and illustrations to subsection (2) are numbered from (i) to (x).

IEA Section 118 corresponds to BSA Section 124 (Who may testify) of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023. The official comparison table notes: The word "Lunatic" is replaced by "A person of unsound mind".

IEA Section 137 corresponds to BSA Section 142 (Examination of witnesses) of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023. The official comparison table notes: Paragraphs are numbered as subsections (1), (2) and (3), and headings of paragraph are excluded.

IEA Section 138 corresponds to BSA Section 143 (Order of examinations) of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023. The official comparison table notes: Paragraph are numbered as subsections (1), (2) and (3), and word "in-chief" included. The words in paragraph heading "Direction of re-examination" are excluded.

IEA Section 145 corresponds to BSA Section 148 (examination as to previous statements in writing) of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023. The official comparison table records no change in substance.