---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 U.S.C. § 1731"
title: "28"
title_heading: "Judiciary and Judicial Procedure"
number: "1731"
heading: "Handwriting"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/28/1731"
units:
  - "Part V — Procedure"
  - "Chapter 115 — Evidence; Documentary"
---

# §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.


## Source credit

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 945.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 638 (Feb. 26, 1913, ch. 79, 37 Stat. 683).

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.