610 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
(iii) Admissions on notice to admit facts.
(iv) Admissions on notice to admit documents.
(v) Admissions by Solicitors.
(vi) Admissions by Counsels.
(2) Informal Admissions are :
(i) By Statements.
(ii) By Conduct—
(1) Act or Omission.
(2) Silence.
(3) Acquiescence.
Admissions the proof which is allowed by section 21 do not Formal Admissions. Section 21 deals with informal admissions only. But it does not deal with all the classes of informal admissions. It does not deal with informal admissions by conduct. It only deals with informal admissions contained in statements. It deals with assertions and not acts.
The definition of an admission as used in Section
21 is spread over sections 17-20.
An admission is a statement, oral or documentary, which suggests an Inference as to any fact in issue or relevant fact made by a person specified in Sections 18, 19, 20.
Two things are necessary.
The statement may not be directly touching the fact in issue or a relevant fact. It is enough if it suggests an inference of acknowledging the fact in issue or relevant fact.
Illus :—
A sues X for damage done by K’s cattle to A’s crop and for the purpose of showing an admission on the part of X that his cattle had caused the damage. X offers the testimony of B to the effect that X told that X had offered a certain sum to cover the damage.
This is a statement which can sustain the inference that X’s admission that his cattle did do the damage.