2021 Georgia Code
Title 24 - Evidence
Chapter 9 - Authentication and Identification
Article 1 - General Provisions
§ 24-9-903. Subscribing Witness's Testimony
The testimony of a subscribing witness shall not be necessary to authenticate a writing unless required by the laws of the jurisdiction whose laws govern the validity of the writing.
(Code 1981, §24-9-903, enacted by Ga. L. 2011, p. 99, § 2/HB 24.)
Cross references.- Requirements regarding proving of wills by witnesses, § 53-3-13.
Subscribing witness's testimony, Fed. R. Evid. 903.
Law reviews.- For article, "An Analysis of Georgia's Proposed Rules of Evidence," see 26 Ga. St. B.J. 173 (1990). For article, "Dancing with the Big Boys: Georgia Adopts (most of) the Federal Rules of Evidence," see 63 Mercer L. Rev. 1 (2011).
JUDICIAL DECISIONSANALYSIS
- General Consideration
- Ancient Writings
- Subscribing Witnesses Not Available
- Writing Only Collaterally Material
- Testimony by Party Executing Writing
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 29A Am. Jur. 2d, Evidence, §§ 1051, 1190, 1203 et seq., 1229.
C.J.S.- 32 C.J.S., Evidence, §§ 986, 989, 990, 1125.
ALR.
- Authorship or authenticity of written or printed matter as inferable without extrinsic proof from name used therein or from its contents or subject matter, 131 A.L.R. 301.
Introduction of decedent's books of account by his personal representative as waiver of "dead man's statute,", 26 A.L.R.2d 1009.
