BSA · Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023
Section 20 — When oral admissions as to contents of documents are relevant.
Replaces Evidence Act Section 22.
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
Nearby sections
- 17 Admissions by persons whose position must be proved as against party to suit.
- 18 Admissions by persons expressly referred to by party to suit.
- 19 Proof of admissions against persons making them, and by or on their behalf.
- 21 Admissions in civil cases when relevant.
- 22 Confession caused by inducement, threat, coercion or promise, when irrelevant in criminal proceeding.
- 23 Confession to police officer.
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