Documents

The deeds, agreements, title papers, letters, receipts, and other written instruments used to prove a fact. In Civil Law. Evidence delivered in however, applied principally to the testimony of witnesses. Savigny, Hist. Rom. Law, § 165. DODRANS (Lat.)

In Roman law. A subdivision of the as, containing nine undae; the proportion of nine-twelfths, or threefourths. 2 Bl. Comm. 462, note; TayL Civ. Law, 492.

The deeds, agreements, title-papers, letters, receipts, and other written instruments used to prove a fact See Hazard v. Durant, 12 R. I. 99. If a document is lost, secondary evidence of its contents may be given, after laying a proper foundation therefor by proving its former existence, and its due execution, and satisfactorily accounting for the failure to produce it. The burden of proving all these facts rests on the party who seeks to introduce secondary evidence of the document claimed American Life Insurance & Trust Co. v. Rosenagle, 77 Pa. 507. See Lost Instrument. In Civil Law. Evidence delivered in the forms established by law, of whatever nature such evidence may be. The term is, however, applied principally to the testimony of witnesses. Savigny, Dr. Rom. § 165. See Evidence.

Written instruments adduced for the purpose of showing or proving a claim or title, or other matter in controversy; evidences of title.

The deeds, agreements, title-papers, letters, receipts, and other written instruments used to prove a fact.

In the civil law. Jividence delivered in the forms established by law, of whatever nature such evidence may be. The term is, however, applied principally to the testimony of witnesses, Sav. Dr. Rom. § 165.

[Lat. documenta, from docere, to show.] Written instraments adduced for the purpose of showing or proving a claim or title, or other matter in controversy; evidences of title.* This term was anciently applied in particular to the BTidences of title to real property, or muniments of title, {ijuihuB ju8 pr(Bdiorum firma-' turi) and otherwise called telligrapha. Spelman, See Telligraphum, Documents are a species of instruments of evidence, and, according to a modern writer on eyidence, " properly include all material substances on which the thoughts of men are represented by any species of conventional mark or symbol. Thus, the wooden score on which a baker and his customers indicate by notches the number of loaves of bread supplied, the old exchequer tallies, and such like, are documents as much as the most elaborate deed." Best on Emd. 238.

evidence, are all the deeds, agreements, title papers, letters, receipts, and all other written instruments which are used to prove a fact.