IEA Section 90 — Presumption as to documents thirty years old

Summary

If a document is at least thirty years old and is produced from a place the court considers proper, the court may assume that any signature or handwriting on it is genuine. The court may also assume that the document was properly signed and witnessed by the people it says signed and witnessed it.

Official Text

Where any document, purporting or proved to be thirty years old, is produced from any custody which the Court in the particular case considers proper, the Court may presume that the signature and every other part of such document, which purports to be in the handwriting of any particular person, is in that person’s handwriting, and, in the case of a document executed or attested, that it was duly executed and attested by the persons by whom it purports to be executed and attested.

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• BSA §92 — Presumption as to documents thirty years old