Meaning of Authentication

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1. For a private document not offered as authentic, what does Section20’s final sentence require?
2. A claimant offers an alleged forged demand letter to show the false representation received, expressly not as a genuine…
3. A private document is forty years old but comes from unexplained unnatural custody and bears suspicious alterations. Do…
4. A proponent supplies reliable other evidence of due execution and authenticity but no person saw the signing and no han…
5. A writing is identified as the threatening note actually delivered to a recipient, not as genuine execution by the pers…
6. Explain authentication where a purported bank letter is offered as the false representation actually received, not as g…
7. A forty-year-old private writing has suspicious alterations and unexplained custody. Discuss why the ancient-document r…
8. Explain why Section20 does not make an execution eyewitness or handwriting expert indispensable in every contested priv…