Tribal Law - Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota; National Indian Law Library, Native American Rights Fund

Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota - Tribal Law

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Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians Tribal Code.

3.03.060 Authorized and Adoptive Admissions

Evidence of a hearsay statement is admissible against a party to the action if the judge finds that:

(a) the declarant was authorized by the party to make a statement or statements for him concerning the subject matter of the statement; or

(b) the party, with knowledge of the content of the statement by words or other conduct, manifested his adoption or approval of the statement or his belief in its truth; or

(c) the declaration concerned a matter within the scope of an agency or employment of the declarant for the party and was made before the termination of the agency or employment; or

(d) the party and the declarant were participants in a plan to commit a crime or civil wrong and the declaration was relevant to the plan or its subject matter and was made while the plan was in existence and before its execution was complete.