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Hearsay evidence   /hˈɪrsˌeɪ ˈɛvədəns/   Listen
Hearsay evidence

noun
1.
Evidence based on what someone has told the witness and not of direct knowledge.






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"Hearsay evidence" Quotes from Famous Books



... than in it. All of which proving a failure, the South took issue with Old and New England on the question of negro slavery being an evil, social, political, or moral, and called for the proof. No proof could be given except that drawn from England, from hearsay evidence, and from theoretical teaching of that system of education designed to support European despotisms, and to destroy American republicanism. This has opened the eyes of the South to the necessity of establishing schools and colleges ...
— Cotton is King and The Pro-Slavery Arguments • Various

... told that the Koran was written in Heaven, and brought to Mahomet by an angel, the account comes to near the same kind of hearsay evidence and second hand authority as the former. I did not see the angel myself, and therefore I have a ...
— The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Complete - With Index to Volumes I - IV • Thomas Paine

... refresher to the memory, though not altogether to supply its place. All evidence is made up of testimony, but all testimony is not evidence. The witness must not introduce hearsay testimony. In one case only is hearsay evidence admissible, and that is in the case of a dying declaration. This is a statement made by a dying person as to how his injuries were inflicted. These declarations are accepted because the law presumes that a dying ...
— Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology • W. G. Aitchison Robertson



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