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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 24. EVIDENCE · Chapter 10. BEST EVIDENCE RULE

24-10-1007. Testimony or written admission of party.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. The contents of writings, recordings, or photographs may be proved by the testimony or deposition of the party against whom offered or by that party’s written admission, without accounting for the nonproduction of the original.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 24-10-1007, enacted by Ga. L. 2011, p. 99, § 2/HB 24.

Cross references

Testimony or a statement of a party to prove content, Fed. R. Evid. 1007.

Law reviews

For article, “Dancing with the Big Boys: Georgia Adopts (most of) the Federal Rules of Evidence,” see 63 Mercer L. Rev. 1 (2011).

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

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