2011 Oregon Revised Statutes
ORS Volume 1, Chapters 1 - 55
ORS Chapter 40
40.565 Rule 1004. Admissibility of other evidence of contents.
The original is not required, and other evidence of the contents of a writing, recording or photograph is admissible when:
(1) All originals are lost or have been destroyed, unless the proponent lost or destroyed them in bad faith;
(2) An original cannot be obtained by any available judicial process or procedure;
(3) At a time when an original was under the control of the party against whom offered, that party was put on notice, by the pleadings or otherwise, that the contents would be a subject of proof at the hearing, and the party does not produce the original at the hearing; or
(4) The writing, recording or photograph is not closely related to a controlling issue. [1981 c.892 74]
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