Evidence Act.
11. The Indian Evidence Act does not define "confession".
For a long time, the courts in India adopted the definition ... confession, if the exculpatory
statement is of some fact which if true would
negative the offence alleged to be confessed.
Moreover, a confession must either
Digest of the Law of Evidence
which «defines a confession as an admission
made at any time by a person charged with
A Vfbcrime stating ... admissions in criminal
a
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cases, and for this purpose defines
confessions so as to cover all such___
admissions, in order to have a general
with the admissibility of confessions by accused persons in criminal cases. But the expression 'confession' is not defined. The Judicial Committee in Pakala ... defined the said expression thus :
"A confession is a statement made by an accused which must either admit in terms the offence
communicated to another. It is said that one cannot confess to himself, he can only confess to another. This raises an interesting point, which falls ... with the admissibility of confessions by accused persons in criminal cases. But the expression 'confession' is not defined. The Judicial Committee in Pakala
liberty. The most serious advocate of privacy must confess that there are serious problems of defining the essence and scope of the right. Privacy interest
accused made a confession of his guilt to PW-10.
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18. "Confession" is not defined under the Evidence
Act . In legal parlance
Juris Volume 3 A at Pg. 251, 'allegiance' has been defined as "fealty or fidelity to the Government of which the person ... knowledge of, to confess, to admit as true, to recognise. Acknowledgment has been defined as the act of recognising the position or claims. A declaration
becomes clear as to what constitutes
confession and how if it does not constitute confession, it may still
be an admission. Being an admission ... does not say that the
confession is to amount to proof. Clearly there
must be other evidence. The confession is only
one element
what constitutes confession and how if it does
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not constitute confession, it may still ... does not say that the
confession is to amount to proof. Clearly there must
be other evidence. The confession is only one
element
confession is one specie of an admission, this flows from
the logic that every confession is an admission but not
every admission is a confession ... clearly stipulate in well-defined terms,
when an admission or a confession, respectively, may
be used against another person, the logical sequitur
of the aforesaid
