Rule 1330 Evidence of a statement contained in a deed of conveyance or a will or other writing purporting to affect an interest in real or personal property is …

When someone writes a deed, a will, or another document that transfers or affects ownership of property, statements made in that document can be used as evidence in court. Normally, written statements from people who are not present in court can be blocked as "hearsay," but this rule creates an exception for property documents.

To use a statement from one of these documents as evidence, three things must be true. The statement must have been relevant to what the document was meant to do. The statement must also relate to a question about who owns or has rights to the property. Finally, the way the property has been handled since the document was written must not contradict what the statement says.

For example, if a deed says that a piece of land belongs to a certain person, and no one has ever treated the property as if that were false, that statement can be brought into court as evidence about who owns the land.