Admission of execution by party to attested document.

What this section does

If a party to an attested document admits that they executed it, that admission is sufficient proof of execution as against that party, even if the document is one that the law requires to be attested.

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

The rule in one line

A party's own admission of execution of an attested document is sufficient proof of execution against that party.

When it applies

• If the defendant in a suit on a promissory note admits having signed it, no attesting witness need be called to prove execution against the defendant.
• An admission in pleadings that a mortgage deed was executed by the party dispenses with the need to call attesting witnesses against that party.

Derived from IEA s.70.