IEA Section 18 — Admission by party to proceeding or his agent by suitor in representative character

Summary

A statement is considered an admission if it is made by someone who is a party to the court case, or by an agent that the court believes the party authorized (either directly or indirectly) to make that statement.

If a person is involved in a lawsuit in a representative role, such as a trustee or guardian, their statements are not treated as admissions unless they were made while they still held that representative role.

Statements made by a person who has a financial or ownership interest in the matter being decided, or by someone from whom a party got their interest, are admissions—but only if the person making the statement still had that interest at the time they made it.

Official Text

Statements made by a party to the proceeding, or by an agent to any such party, whom the Court regards, under the circumstances of the case, as expressly or impliedly authorized by him to make them, are admissions.
by suitor in representative character: Statements made by parties to suits suing or sued in a representative character, are not admissions, unless they were made while the party making them held that character.
Statements made by—

party interested in subject-matter: persons who have any proprietary or pecuniary interest in the subject-matter of the proceeding, and who make the statement in their character of persons so interested, or
person from whom interest derived: persons from whom the parties to the suit have derived their interest in the subject-matter of the suit, are admissions, if they are made during the continuance of the interest of the persons making the statements.

Old <-> New Code Mapping

• BSA §16 — Admission by party to proceeding or his agent