Subsection 4: Other written documents

The registers and documents that professionals are required to keep or draw up have, against their author, the same evidential force as writings under private signature; but the person relying on them may not divide the entries in order to retain only those that are favourable to him.

Domestic registers and papers are not evidence in favour of the person who wrote them. They are evidence against him: 1° In all cases where they formally state a payment received; 2° When they contain the express mention that the writing was made to make up for the defect of the title in favour of whom they state an obligation.

A notation of a payment or other cause of discharge made by the creditor on an original document of title which has always remained in his possession is equivalent to a simple presumption of discharge of the debtor. The same applies to a notation made on the duplicate of a document of title or receipt, provided that the duplicate is in the hands of the debtor.