hearsay evidence

hearsay evidence
noun
evidence based on what someone has told the witness and not of direct knowledge
• Topics: ↑law, ↑jurisprudence
• Hypernyms: ↑evidence

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noun
: legal testimony that consists in a narration by one person of matters told him by another; broadly : evidence that does not derive its value solely from the credit given to the witness himself as such but that rests in part on the veracity and competency of some other person or sometimes of the witness at another time

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Law.
testimony based on what a witness has heard from another person rather than on direct personal knowledge or experience.
[1745-55]

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hearsay evidence,
Law. evidence at second hand, consisting of testimony based on information that a witness has obtained from another person, not from first-hand personal knowledge. Hearsay evidence is usually inadmissible, but is sometimes made to show reputation, relate dying declarations, or introduce into the record otherwise unobtainable information.

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  • hearsay evidence — See hearsay …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • hearsay evidence — noun Date: 1753 evidence based not on a witness s personal knowledge but on another s statement not made under oath …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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