§ 1731. Handwriting

Statutory text

The admitted or proved handwriting of any person shall be admissible, for purposes of comparison, to determine genuineness of other handwriting attributed to such person.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1948
Title 28, United States Code, section —
Pub. L. 80–646 · 62 Stat. 869
Enacted · 28 U.S.C. § 1731
(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 945.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 945.)

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Notes

Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 638 (Feb. 26, 1913, ch. 79, 37 Stat. 683).

Words “as a basis for comparison by witnesses, or by the jury, court, or officer conducting such proceeding”, were omitted as superfluous.

Changes were made in phraseology.

Credits

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 945.)