CHAPTER 3

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EVIDENCE

3.4 Types of Evidence

3.4.1 Writings (Documentary Evidence)

Proof by writing is proof made by tendering documentary evidence that may or may not be in the form of an instrument.^{472 Citation 472} Instruments are prepared to memorialize a fact. They include authentic acts prepared by public officer (e.g., orders, minutes, notarized contracts) and private writings (i.e., ordinary writings, such as contracts, which record an agreement to a juridical act). All other ordinary documents are writings, but not instruments. All kinds of writings are admitted by boards of referees subject to weight, and this includes documentation or reports issued by the Commission.^{473 Citation 473}

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