Facts admitted need not be proved.

What this section does

Facts that parties or their agents agree to admit at the hearing, or admit in writing before the hearing, or are deemed to have admitted by their pleadings under applicable rules of pleading, need not be proved. The Court retains a discretion to require such admitted facts to be proved by other means if it considers it appropriate.

AI-generated plain-language summary. For the binding statutory text, see India Code (official).

The rule in one line

Facts admitted by parties (orally at hearing, in writing before hearing, or by pleadings) need not be proved, subject to the Court's discretion to require proof.

When it applies

• Where both parties in a civil suit admit in their written statements that a contract was executed on a particular date, no further proof of that date is required.
• If parties agree at the commencement of trial to admit a particular document, it need not be formally proved.

Derived from IEA s.58.