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2016 Idaho Statutes
Title 55 - PROPERTY IN GENERAL
Chapter 7 - ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Section 55-721 - PROOF OF INSTRUMENT BY HANDWRITING.
ID Code § 55-721 (2016) What's This?
55-721. Proof of instrument by handwriting. The execution of an instrument may be established by proof of the handwriting of the party and of a subscribing witness, if there is one, in the following cases:
1. When the parties and all the subscribing witnesses are dead; or,
2. When the parties and all the subscribing witnesses are nonresidents of the state; or,
3. When the place of their residence is unknown to the party desiring the proof, and cannot be ascertained by the exercise of due diligence; or,
4. When the subscribing witness conceals himself or cannot be found by the officer, by the exercise of due diligence, in attempting to serve the subpoena or attachment; or,
5. In case of the continued failure or refusal of the witness to testify for the space of one (1) hour, after his appearance.
History:
[(55-721) 1863, p. 528, sec. 14; R.S., sec. 2967; reen. R.C. & C.L., sec. 3139; C.S., sec. 5403; I.C.A., sec. 54-720.]
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