EVIDENCE
Model Code of Evidence
xxiii, 435 pp., 1942, Order Code 5070, $63.50
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The Model Code of Evidence was drafted in response to the need for a thorough revision of existing law. It was so drafted for adoption by courts having the power to regulate evidence and procedure by rule or for enactment as a code of evidence by legislatures.
General Provisions; Qualifications, Examination and Credibility of Witnesses; Privileges; Admissibility as Affected by Considerations of Extrinsic Policy; Expert and Opinion Evidence; Hearsay Evidence; Authentication and Content of Writings; Presumptions; Judicial Notice. Includes a 70-page Foreword by Edmund M. Morgan and articles by Mason Ladd (25 pp.) and J. Russell McElroy (15 pp.).
Reporter:
Edmund Morgan, Harvard University Law School.Assistant Reporter:
John M. Maguire, Harvard University Law School.Committee on Evidence:
Wilbur H. Cherry, University of Minnesota Law School; Laurence H. Eldredge, University of Pennsylvania Law School; William G. Hale, University of Southern California School of Law; Augustus N. Hand, United States Circuit Court of Appeals, 2d Circuit; Learned Hand, United States Circuit Court of Appeals, 2d Circuit; Mason Ladd, University of Iowa College of Law; Henry T. Lummus, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts [During first part of work]; Charles T. McCormick, University of Texas Law School; J. Russell McElroy, 10th Judicial Circuit, Birmingham, Alabama [During final year of work]; Robert P. Patterson, Washington, D. C. (United States Circuit Court of Appeals, 2d Circuit, when connected with Committee during first part of work); Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr., Boston, Massachusetts. A Group of Consultants.