Hearsay exceptions for records of births, deaths, marriages, divorces, and similar matters

Nix v. Whiteside, 475 U.S. 157, 166 (1986) ("the very nature of a trial [is] a search for truth").The determination of facts and the accurate determination of facts are important purposes of the process of proof and the law of evidence in America.

Cf. United States v. Snow, 517 F.2d 441, 443-444 (9th Cir. 1975) (upholding trial court's admission of a tag bearing defendant's name on a brief case in which the weapon was found because the taped name tag was not....Not every human utterance is capable of amounting to hearsay. Only an utterance that contains an assertion can amount to a "statement" for purposes of Federal Rule of Evidence 801(a) or hearsay under Federal Rule of Evidence 801(c).

Union Mutual Life Insurance Co. v. Chrysler Corp., 793 F.2d 1, 8-9 (1st Cir. 1986) (holding, in plaintiff lending company's action against defendants computer leasing company and another lessee company for breach of lease agreement, that the....A statement is imputed to a principal or to an employer and is treated as the principal's or employer's vicarious admission (which, like other admissions is exempt from the hearsay rule) if the principal or employer is a party, the statement is offered against the principal or party, the statement is a statement by the party's agent or employee about a matter within the scope of the agent's agency or the employee's employment, and the statement is made during the principal-agent or employer-employee relationship.