INDIAN EVIDENCE ACT, 1872
BHARATIYA SAKSHYA ADHINIYAM, 2023
18. Admission-- by party to proceeding or his agent; by suitor in representative character; by party interested in subject-matter; by person from whom interest derived.
16. Admission by party to proceeding or his agent.
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INDIAN EVIDENCE ACT, 1872
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.
Repealed / replaced by BSA India Code — IEA 1872
BHARATIYA SAKSHYA ADHINIYAM, 2023
16. Admission by party to proceeding or his agent.—(1) 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.
(2) Statements made by—
(i) 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; or
(ii) (a) 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
(b) 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.
Current law India Code — BSA 2023