Practice question
A claim depends only on the general result of thousands of transactions that cannot be examined in court without great loss of time. The proponent offers a proper summary but refuses the opponent any reasonable access to the originals. Which is correct?
- A summary always eliminates access rights.
- Section 7 permits the qualifying summary but requires originals to be available for examination or copying at a reasonable time and place.
- Every summary is forbidden.
- The proponent may destroy originals once a chart exists.
- The chart becomes conclusive simply because it is short.
Legal references
- https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/am_19-08-15-sc_2019.html — Rule 130 sections 3–9: original-document exceptions, duplicates, unavailable originals, adverse custody, summaries and public records.
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