Practice question
A party invokes the truly-dated-writing presumption, but competent contemporaneous records show the document was backdated. Must the court ignore them?
- No; the presumption is disputable and the contrary evidence must be assessed
- Yes; the date is conclusively immune
- Yes; every written date overrides all proof
- Only the paper’s age matters
- Only the writer’s rank matters
Legal references
- AM19-08-15-SC, current Rule130 Section54; Rule131 Sections1–3,5–6; Rule133 Section1: https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/am_19-08-15-sc_2019.html
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