Title 6, Guam Rules of Evidence

The recitals in a public law are conclusive evidence of the facts recited for the purpose of carrying it into effect, but no further. The recitals in a private law of another state or foreign country or the United States are conclusive evidence between parties who claim under its…

A copy of the judicial record of a foreign country is also admissible in evidence, upon proof: 1. That the copy offered has been compared by the witness with the original, and is an exact transcript of the whole of it; 2. That such original was in the custody of the clerk of the …

COL120106 The effect of a judgment or a final order in an action or special proceedings before a court or judge of Guam, or of the United States, having jurisdiction to pronounce the judgment or order, is as follows: 1. In case of a judgment or order against a specific thing, or …

Other judicial orders of a court or judge of Guam, or of the United States, create a disputable presumption, according to the matter directly determined, between the same parties and the representatives and successors in interest by title subsequent to the commencement of the act…

The parties are deemed to be the same when those between whom the evidence is offered were on opposite sides of the former case, and a judgment or other determination could in that case have been made between them alone, though other parties were joined with both or either. SOURC…

That only is deemed to have been adjudged in a former judgment which appears upon its face to have been so adjudged, or which was actually and necessarily included therein or necessary thereto. SOURCE: CCP § 1910.

Whenever, pursuant to the last four Sections [4209-4212 inclusive) a party is bound by record, and such party stands in the relation of a surety for another, the latter is also bound from the time that he has notice of the action or proceeding, and an opportunity at the surety's …

The effect of a judicial record of a state, territory, commonwealth, possession or trust territory of the United States and the District of Columbia is the same in Guam as in the place where it was made, except that it can only be enforced in Guam by an action, and except, also, …

A final judgment of any tribunal of a foreign country having jurisdiction, according to the laws of such country, to pronounce the judgment, shall have the same effect as a judicial record of a state, as provided by 4214, above. SOURCE: CCP § 1915 modified. COMMENT: A literal rea…

The effect of the judicial record of a court of admiralty of a foreign country is the same as if it were the record of a court of admiralty of the United States. SOURCE: CCP § 1914. COMMENT: The law of Admiralty has developed its own traditions apart from those of the common law …

Any judicial record may be impeached by evidence of a want of jurisdiction in the court of judicial officer, of collusion between the parties, or of fraud in the party offering the record, in respect to the proceedings. SOURCE: CCP § 1916. COMMENT: The Advisory Committee's Note t…

The jurisdiction sufficient to sustain a record is jurisdiction over the cause, over the parties, and over the thing, when a specific thing is the subject of the judgment. SOURCE: CCP § 1917.

Church records and/or registers, and/or entries therefrom, and/or certificates kept or issued by a clergyman or other person in accordance with law or in accordance with the rules, regulations and/or requirements of a religious denomination, society or a church, shall be competen…

Church records or registers of entries therefrom or certificates of the character mentioned in 4219, in order to be admissible in evidence shall be proved by the original or by a copy thereof certified by the clergyman or other person having the custody of the original, provided …

Entries in public or other official books or records, made in the performance of his duty by a public officer of Guam, or by another person in the performance of a duty specially enjoined by law, are prima facie evidence of the facts stated therein. SOURCE: CCP § 1920. SOURCE: Wh…

Whenever a copy of a writing is certified for the purpose of evidence, the certificate must state in substance that the copy is a correct copy of the original, or of a specified part thereof, as the case may be. The certificate must be under the official seal of the certifying of…

The provisions of this Title applicable to public writings of a state are equally applicable to the public writings of the United States, of a territory, possession, Commonwealth or Trust Territory of the United States, and of the District of Columbia. SOURCE: CCP § 1924 updated …

COL120106 A certificate of title or purchase, or of location, of any lands in Guam, issued or made in pursuance of any law of the United States, or of Guam, is primary evidence that the holder or assignee of such certificate is the owner of the lands described therein. SOURCE: CC…

An entry made by an officer or board of officers, or under the direction and in the presence of either, in the course of official duty, is prima facie evidence of the facts stated in such entry. SOURCE: CCP § 1926. CROSS-REFERENCES: § 4103 of this Division.

A deed of conveyance of real property, purporting to have been executed by a proper officer in pursuance of legal process of any of the courts of record of Guam, or in pursuance of any law authorizing such transfer of land, acknowledged and recorded in the Department of Land Mana…

Except as specifically provided in this Article, this Article concerns itself with private writings only. SOURCE: New Section. COMMENT: Much of former CCP Ch. 3, Article 3 is covered in Division 1. This Article contains those portions of the former law not covered in Division 1 -…

There shall be no difference hereafter, in Guam, between sealed and unsealed writings. A writing under seal may therefore be changed, or altogether discharged by a writing not under seal. SOURCE: CCP § 1932. COMMENT: At common law, the sealing of private writings had legal signif…

The execution of an instrument is the subscribing and delivering it. SOURCE: Former CCP § 1933, as modified. COL120106 COMMENT: The modification here is the deletion of the words "with or without affixing a seal." With the elimination of any legal difference between sealed and un…

A subscribing witness is one who sees a writing executed or hears it acknowledged, and at the request of the party, thereupon signs his name as a witness. SOURCE: CCP § 1935. CROSS-REFERENCES: § 903 of Division 1 (Guam Rules of Evidence.)

The entries and other writings of a decedent in a position to know the facts stated therein, made at or near the time of the transaction, may be read as prima facie evidence of the facts stated therein, in the following cases: 1. When the entry was made against the interest of th…

The record of a conveyance of real property, or any other record, a transcript of which is admissible in evidence, must not be removed from the office where it is kept, except upon the order of a court, in cases where the inspection of the record is shown to be essential to the j…

The court, on its own motion, by an order entered in the minutes, may order destroyed or otherwise disposed or, any exhibit introduced in the trial of a civil action or proceeding which, if appeal has not been taken from the COL120106 decision of the court in the said action or p…

Whenever, under any law of Guam or under any rule, regulation, order, or requirement made pursuant to law, any matter is required or permitted to be supported, evidenced, established, or proved by the sworn declaration, verification, certificate, statement, oath or affidavit, in …