User:Shamimllb/Difference between admission and confession

The Indian Evidence Act 1872 deals with the provisions of admission and confession. Section 17-23 and 31 of Indian Evidence Act 1872 states about the admission and its relevancy and section 24 -30 of Indian Evidence Act 1872 describes the confession.Going through these sections we may differentiate them as following-

A statement oral or documentary admitting a fact arising from, and relevant to the civil suit is called admission whereas an admission made before the Judicial magistrate by an accused stating or suggesting that he has committed the crime for which he has been made accused.

Admission is a matter of civil suit but confession is a matter of criminal case.

Admission may be of both kinds i.e. oral or documentary but confession must be oral.

Judicial Magistrate takes the confession but he has no power to take admission as he has no jurisdiction over the civil suit.But in case of admission it must be taken by the judge of civil court.

All confessions may be recognized as an admission but all admissions are not confession.

Admission is a genus whereas confession is a species.

An admission may be made from any of the party of the civil suit but a confession must be made by accused.

Admission is taken according to the procedure stated in Code of Civil Procedure 1908 whereas Confession is taken according to the procedure stated in section 164 of Code of Criminal Procedure 1898

There may be another difference regarding the concern sections of Indian Evidence Act 1872 about confession and admission.section 17-23 and 31 of this Act describes about admission whereas section 24-30 describes about confession.

So, these are the general differences between admission and confession in the light of the Indian Evidence Act 1872.