IEA 17 — Admission defined

Indian Evidence Act, 1872

Statutory text

An  admission  is  a  statement,

[oral  or  documentary  or  contained  in
electronic form], which suggests any inference as to any fact in issue or relevant fact, and which is made by any of the persons, and under the circumstances, hereinafter mentioned.
18.  Admission  by  party  to  proceeding  or  his  agent.––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 authorised 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
––
(1) 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
(2) by  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.

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