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Definition: Hearsay Evidence |
Hearsay EvidenceNoun1. Evidence based on what someone has told the witness and not of direct knowledge. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Evidence | Oral evidence, documentary evidence, hearsay evidence, external evidence, extrinsic evidence, internal evidence, intrinsic evidence, circumstantial evidence, cumulative evidence, ex parte evidence, presumptive evidence, collateral evidence, constructive evidence; proof; (demonstration); evidence in chief. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Hearsay Evidence |
| Specialty definitions using "hearsay evidence": INADMISSIBLE. (references) |
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Minorities | Kenya | In 1999 a presidential Commission on Ethnic Clashes, a government-appointed panel of three judges formed in 1998, submitted to President Moi its report on the cause of ethnic clashes that occurred in the Rift Valley in 1992 and 1997, the Coast province in 1997, and the areas of Molo and Laikipia in 1998. Many of the hearings were public, and witnesses often directly accused local politicians of abetting the combatants, although they rarely provided other than hearsay evidence. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | INADMISSIBLE, adj. Not competent to be considered. Said of certain kinds of testimony which juries are supposed to be unfit to be entrusted with, and which judges, therefore, rule out, even of proceedings before themselves alone. Hearsay evidence is inadmissible because the person quoted was unsworn and is not before the court for examination; yet most momentous actions, military, political, commercial and of every other kind, are daily undertaken on hearsay evidence. There is no religion in the world that has any other basis than hearsay evidence. Revelation is hearsay evidence; that the Scriptures are the word of God we have only the testimony of men long dead whose identity is not clearly established and who are not known to have been sworn in any sense. Under the rules of evidence as they now exist in this country, no single assertion in the Bible has in its support any evidence admissible in a court of law. It cannot be proved that the battle of Blenheim ever was fought, that there was such as person as Julius Caesar, such an empire as Assyria. But as records of courts of justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a scourge to mankind. The evidence (including confession) upon which certain women were convicted of witchcraft and executed was without a flaw; it is still unimpeachable. The judges' decisions based on it were sound in logic and in law. Nothing in any existing court was ever more thoroughly proved than the charges of witchcraft and sorcery for which so many suffered death. If there were no witches, human testimony and human reason are alike destitute of value. |
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| Language | Translations for "hearsay evidence"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 捕風捉影 (chase the wind and clutch at shadows - make groundless accusations, speak or act on hearsay evidence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | bewijs door algemene bekendheid (traditionary evidence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | preuve par ouï-dire, preuve par commune renommée. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Beweis durch den gemeinen Ruf (traditionary evidence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | μαρτυρία εξ ακοής. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | mint tanúvallomás, mint bizonyíték, másodkézből való értesülés. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | earsayhay evidenceay mãrturie falsã. (various references) kulaktan dolma delil. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
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-4 letters: cadaverines. | |
-5 letters: adherences, cadaverine, decenaries, echeverias, endarchies, enravished, verdancies. | |
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