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Practice question: Authentication of Private Writings

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Practice question

Under Section 21, what age condition applies to the ancient-private-document exception?
  1. Exactly ten years, regardless of custody
  2. Any age if the paper looks yellow
  3. More than thirty years old, together with the other prescribed conditions
  4. Thirty years alone, regardless of suspicious alterations
  5. Only documents made after the lawsuit began

Legal references

  • 2019 Rules on Evidence, Rule 132 Section 21: https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/am_19-08-15-sc_2019.html

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