Indian Evidence Act, 1872
18. Admission- by party to proceeding or his agent
Statements made by
party to the proceeding, or by an agent to any such party, whom the Court regards,
under the circumstances of the case, as expressly or impliedly authorized by
him to make them, are admissions.
By suitor in
representative character — Statements made by parties to suits, suing or sued
in a representative character, are not admissions, unless they are made while
the party making them held that character.
Statements made by—
(1) By party
interested in subject-matter—persons who have any proprietary or pecuniary
interest in the subject-matter of the proceeding, and who make the statement in
their character of persons so interested, or
(2) By person from
whom interest derived- Persons from whom the parties to the suit have derived
their interest in the subject-matter of the suit, are admissions, if they are
made during the continuance of the interest of the persons making the
statements.