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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

The conviction in a criminal case...will it treat as an evidence in a civil case?

Conviction in a criminal offence is no evidence of fact as which that conviction was based in a civil case in which those facts are in issue or form the subject matter of the suit. But when conviction is based on a plea of guilty, that plea is relevant and to prove it, the judgment in the criminal case is admissible in evidence in the subsequent civil suit in which the facts give rise to the charge are in issue or form the subject matter of the suit...
Taylors Treatise - law of evidence Vol II 1931 Edition Para 1694.

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