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Definition of Rule of evidence
1. Noun. (law) a rule of law whereby any alleged matter of fact that is submitted for investigation at a judicial trial is established or disproved.
Specialized synonyms: Best Evidence Rule, Estoppel, Exclusionary Rule, Fruit Of The Poisonous Tree, Hearsay Rule, Parol Evidence Rule, Res Ipsa Loquitur, Res Gestae
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
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Literary usage of Rule of evidence
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1. A Preliminary Treatise on Evidence at the Common Law by James Bradley Thayer (1898)
"the great, overtopping pre-eminence of this supposed rule of evidence. Repeating the
expressions of earlier writers and judges, to the effect that " there ..."
2. A Preliminary Treatise on Evidence at the Common Law by James Bradley Thayer (1898)
"the great, overtopping pre-eminence of this supposed rule of evidence. Repeating the
expressions of earlier writers and judges, to the effect that " there ..."
3. A Preliminary Treatise on Evidence at the Common Law by James Bradley Thayer (1898)
"the great, overtopping pre-eminence of this supposed rule of evidence. ...
to the effect that " there is but one gsneral rule of evidence, the best that the ..."
4. Principles of Contract: Being a Treatise on the General Principles by Sir Frederick Pollock (1885)
"We are now concerned with a general rule of evidence, and the modifications
effected in some of its results partly by special rules of construction and ..."
5. A Selection of Cases on Evidence at the Common Law by James Bradley Thayer (1900)
"THERE is a rule of evidence which forbids, as regards solemn documents, the use
of direct extrinsic expressions of the writer's intention, ..."
6. The Principles of the Law of Evidence: With Elementary Rules for Conducting by William Mawdesley Best, John Archibald Russell, Appleton Morgan (1882)
"86 2. Relating to evidence extra causam .... 86 3. Rules of forensic pro^f ......
86 One general rule of evidence in causa—The best evidence must be given . ..."
7. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Simon Greenleaf (1899)
"So that the exclusion of such declarations in the process of interpretation seems
to be explainable, not as a rule of evidence affecting interpretation, ..."
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