28 USC § 1731 - Handwriting
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identifier: "/us/usc/t28/s1731"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_legal_evidence"
title: "28 USC § 1731 - Handwriting"
title_number: 28
title_name: "JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE"
section_number: "1731"
section_name: "Handwriting"
chapter_number: 115
chapter_name: "EVIDENCE; DOCUMENTARY"
part_number: "V"
part_name: "PROCEDURE"
positive_law: true
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 945.)"
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# § 1731. Handwriting
The admitted or proved handwriting of any person shall be admissible, for purposes of comparison, to determine genuineness of other handwriting attributed to such person.
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**Source Credit**: (June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 945.)
### Historical and Revision Notes
Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 638 (, ).
Words “as a basis for comparison by witnesses, or by the jury, court, or officer conducting such proceeding”, were omitted as superfluous.
Changes were made in phraseology.