IEA Section 22 — When oral admissions as to contents of documents are relevant

Summary

Oral statements about what is written in a document are not allowed as evidence unless the person trying to use them first proves they can present a copy of the document instead of the original, as allowed by later rules, or unless the authenticity of the document itself is being challenged.

Official Text

Oral admissions as to the contents of a document are not relevant, unless and until the party proposing to prove them shows that he is entitled to give secondary evidence of the contents of such document under the rules hereinafter contained, or unless the genuineness of a document produced is in question.

Old <-> New Code Mapping

• BSA §20 — When oral admissions as to contents of documents are relevant