fleet-book evidence

fleet-book evidence
\\ˈflēt-\ noun
Usage: usually capitalized F
Etymology: so called from the fact that books recording clandestine marriages in Fleet prison chapel, London, England, and in nearby houses were declared inadmissible as evidence in British courts
Britain : evidence usually documentary that is inadmissible because inherently unreliable

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