Title 31, Judicial Proof
16 chapters · 102 sections in this title.
N.D.C.C. § 31-08-01 Admissibility in evidence of business records - Term business defined - Exception
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A record of an act, condition, or event is competent evidence insofar as relevant, if: 1. The custodian or other qualified witness testifies to its identity and the mode of its preparation. 2. It was made in the regular course of business, at or near the time of the act, conditio…
N.D.C.C. § 31-08-01.1 Certain copies of business and public records admissible in evidence
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If any business, institution, member of a profession or calling, or any department or agency of government in the regular course of business or activity has kept or recorded any memorandum, writing, entry, print, representation, or combination thereof, of any act, transaction, oc…
N.D.C.C. § 31-08-01.2 Medical records authentication
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If appropriate safeguards have been taken to limit access to medical records in an electronic data storage system, a medical record in an electronic data storage system may be authenticated by an electronic signature or a computer-generated signature code.
N.D.C.C. § 31-08-01.3 Medical records recording
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The recording of hospital medical records by an electronic image system or reproduction process is considered a photographic process. The making or recording of hospital medical records by electronic data processing systems is considered an original written record, and printout o…
N.D.C.C. § 31-08-02 Proof of witnessed written instruments
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In proving any written instrument or contract to which there is a subscribing witness, or to which there are two or more subscribing witnesses, it shall not be necessary to call any such witness or witnesses, but the instrument or contract may be proved, except for purposes of fi…
N.D.C.C. § 31-08-02.1 Handwriting admissible in evidence for comparison
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The handwriting of any person shall be competent evidence for the purpose of furnishing a standard of comparison, in all cases wherein the genuineness of a writing is questioned or the identity of the writer is sought to be established.
N.D.C.C. § 31-08-05 Statistical tables admissible to establish life expectancy
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In all cases in which the probable duration of the natural life of any person from and after a particular age is material, standard statistical tables of mortality are competent evidence of such probable duration or expectation of life.
N.D.C.C. § 31-08-06 When instruments affecting real property, or records or copies of records thereof, admissible in evidence
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Every instrument conveying or affecting real property which has been acknowledged or proved and certified as provided by the laws of this state, together with the certificate of acknowledgment or proof, may be read in evidence in an action or proceeding without any further proof.…
N.D.C.C. § 31-08-07 Copies of statements to be provided - When statement admissible
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Every insurance adjuster, attorney, or any other person who takes the statement of an individual, who may be a party to possible litigation, for use or possible use in the preparation of or trying of a civil suit arising out of a tortious act, and whether said statement be in wri…