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[CITE: 28USC1731]

 
               TITLE 28--JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
 
                            PART V--PROCEDURE
 
                   CHAPTER 115--EVIDENCE; DOCUMENTARY
 
Sec. 1731. Handwriting

    The admitted or proved handwriting of any person shall be 
admissible, for purposes of comparison, to determine genuineness of 
other handwriting attributed to such person.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 945.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 638 (Feb. 26, 1913, ch. 
79, 37 Stat. 683).
    Words ``as a basis for comparison by witnesses, or by the jury, 
court, or officer conducting such proceeding'', were omitted as 
superfluous.
    Changes were made in phraseology.
