ENACTMENT NO. 16 OF 1992 SYARIAH COURTS EVIDENCE ENACTMENT 1992
PART I – RELEVANCY CHAPTER II - QARINAH OPINIONS OF THIRD PERSONS WHEN RELEVANT
Section 35. Opinion as to handwriting relevant.
When the Court has to form an opinion as to the person by whom any document was written or signed, the opinion of any person acquainted with the handwriting of the person by whom it is supposed to have been written or signed, that it was or was not written or signed by that person, is a relevant fact.
Explanation - A person is said to be acquainted with the handwriting of another person when he has seen that person write, or when he has received documents purporting to be written by that person in answer to documents written by himself or under his authority and addressed to that person, or when, in the ordinary course of business, documents purporting to be written by that person have been habitually submitted to him.
ILLUSTRATION
The question is whether a given. letter is from A to his wife. The evidence given by B, the secretary of A, who regularly reads A’s writing. The evidence of B is relevant through B never saw A write.