60-464. Authentication required; ancient documents. - Kansas Statutes

60-464

Chapter 60.--PROCEDURE, CIVIL Article 4.--RULES OF EVIDENCE

      60-464.   Authentication required; ancient documents.Authentication of a writing is required before it may be received inevidence. Authentication may be by evidence sufficient to sustain a findingof its authenticity or by any other means provided by law. If the judgefinds that a writing (1) is at least thirty years old at the time it isoffered, and (2) is in such condition as to create no suspicion concerningits authenticity, and (3) at the time of its discovery was in a place inwhich such a document, if authentic, would be likely to be found, it issufficiently authenticated.

      History:   L. 1963, ch. 303, 60-464; Jan. 1, 1964.