Article 125: Objecting to documentary evidence

Décisions de la Cour suprême interprétant cette section

1. Arrêt de la Cour suprême n° 4998/2559 (2016)

   Where a party does not object that a document has no original, is forged, or that the copy is incorrect, it is deemed to admit the existence and authenticity of the original and the correctness of the copy under Section 125, and the document is admissible under Section 93.

   The second to fifth defendants did not contest the authenticity of the barge construction documents, so the court held they admitted the existence and authenticity of the originals and the correctness of the copies under Section 125, making the documents admissible under Section 93(1) and (4).

2. Arrêt de la Cour suprême n° 7073/2559 (2016)

   A party served with copies in advance who does not object to them by the method in Section 125 cannot later raise the impropriety of those documents, especially where it has itself cited documents in the same manner.

   The objector received the applicants' copies in advance but did not object under Section 125, and had itself cited documents such as a birth certificate and marriage certificate copies in the same way. The court held it could not later attack those documents as improper.

3. Arrêt de la Cour suprême n° 5661/2567 (2024)

   Where a party does not object to the citing of a document during the trial, that document is admissible as evidence under Section 93(4) read with Section 125.

   The plaintiff did not object during trial to the road construction permit documents, so the court held they were admissible under Section 93(4) read with Section 125 and used them to find the disputed road had been dedicated as a public way.

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