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Vanderbilt University Law School

1961

Model code of evidence

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Vicarious Admissions And The Uniform Rules, Judson F. Falknor Jun 1961

Vicarious Admissions And The Uniform Rules, Judson F. Falknor

Vanderbilt Law Review

The admissibility of extra-judicial utterances as "vicarious admissions" under the Uniform Rules of Evidence would be regulated by Rule 63 (8)(a) and Rule 63 (9), quoted in the margin. Adoption of these rules would work substantial changes in existing doctrine; changes which the informed consensus may ultimately deem desirable, but which, nonetheless, appear to deserve somewhat more penetrating discussion than has so far been engendered. I hasten to make it clear that I do not necessarily oppose the proposals; merely that I have some doubts which have not as yet been resolved. One further preliminary word: the proposals of the …