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84 relations: Admissible evidence, Adverse inference, Affidavit, Anecdotal evidence, Anglo-America, Attorney–client privilege, Australia, Authentication, Bar examination, Boston, Burden of proof (law), Canada Evidence Act, Circumstantial evidence, Civil law (legal system), Common law, Competence (law), Computational criminology, Contract, Court, Crime, Criminal law, Criminal procedure, Cross-examination, Dead Man's Statute, Demonstrative evidence, Direct evidence, Direct examination, Discovery (law), Dispute resolution, Documentary evidence, Due process, Electronic discovery, England and Wales, English law, Evidence under Bayes theorem, Exclusionary rule, Exhibit (legal), Expert witness, False evidence, Federal Rules of Evidence, Fruit of the poisonous tree, Hearsay, Identification (information), Intention (criminal law), James Bradley Thayer, John Henry Wigmore, Judicial notice, Jury, Law, Law school, ..., Lawrence M. Friedman, Legal technicality, Los Angeles, Military tribunals in the United States, Negligence, New World, Omnibus hearing, Opinion, Parallel construction, Parol evidence rule, Physician–patient privilege, Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, Priest–penitent privilege, Privilege (evidence), Procedural law, Product liability, Proof (truth), Prosecutor, Quantum meruit, Real evidence, Reasonable doubt, Reasonable suspicion, Relevance (law), Self-authenticating document, Silent witness rule, Spectral evidence, Spoliation of evidence, Spousal privilege, State secrets privilege, Tampering with evidence, Testimony, Trier of fact, Ultimate issue (law), Witness. Expand index (34 more) »
Admissible evidence
Admissible evidence, in a court of law, is any testimonial, documentary, or tangible evidence that may be introduced to a factfinder—usually a judge or jury—to establish or to bolster a point put forth by a party to the proceeding.
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Adverse inference
Adverse inference is a legal inference, adverse to the concerned party, drawn from silence or absence of requested evidence.
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Affidavit
An affidavit is a written sworn statement of fact voluntarily made by an affiant or deponent under an oath or affirmation administered by a person authorized to do so by law.
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Anecdotal evidence
Anecdotal evidence is evidence from anecdotes, i.e., evidence collected in a casual or informal manner and relying heavily or entirely on personal testimony.
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Anglo-America
Anglo-America most often refers to a region in the Americas in which English is a main language and British culture and the British Empire have had significant historical, ethnic, linguistic and cultural impact.
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Attorney–client privilege
In the law of the United States, attorney–client privilege or lawyer–client privilege is a "client's right privilege to refuse to disclose and to prevent any other person from disclosing confidential communications between the client and the attorney." The attorney–client privilege is one of the oldest recognized privileges for confidential communications.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.
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Authentication
Authentication (from authentikos, "real, genuine", from αὐθέντης authentes, "author") is the act of confirming the truth of an attribute of a single piece of data claimed true by an entity.
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Bar examination
A bar examination is a test intended to determine whether a candidate is qualified to practice law in a given jurisdiction.
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Boston
Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.
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Burden of proof (law)
The burden of proof (onus probandi) is the obligation of a party in a trial to produce the evidence that will prove the claims they have made against the other party.
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Canada Evidence Act
The Canada Evidence Act is an Act of the Parliament of Canada, first passed in 1893, that regulates the rules of evidence in court proceedings under federal law.
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Circumstantial evidence
Circumstantial evidence is evidence that relies on an inference to connect it to a conclusion of fact—like a fingerprint at the scene of a crime.
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Civil law (legal system)
Civil law, civilian law, or Roman law is a legal system originating in Europe, intellectualized within the framework of Roman law, the main feature of which is that its core principles are codified into a referable system which serves as the primary source of law.
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Common law
Common law (also known as judicial precedent or judge-made law, or case law) is that body of law derived from judicial decisions of courts and similar tribunals.
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Competence (law)
In United States law, competence concerns the mental capacity of an individual to participate in legal proceedings or transactions, and the mental condition a person must have to be responsible for his or her decisions or acts.
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Computational criminology
Computational criminology is an interdisciplinary field which uses computing science methods to formally define criminology concepts, improve our understanding of complex phenomena, and generate solutions for related problems.
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Contract
A contract is a promise or set of promises that are legally enforceable and, if violated, allow the injured party access to legal remedies.
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Court
A court is a tribunal, often as a government institution, with the authority to adjudicate legal disputes between parties and carry out the administration of justice in civil, criminal, and administrative matters in accordance with the rule of law.
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Crime
In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority.
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Criminal law
Criminal law is the body of law that relates to crime.
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Criminal procedure
Criminal procedure is the adjudication process of the criminal law.
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Cross-examination
In law, cross-examination is the interrogation of a witness called by one's opponent.
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Dead Man's Statute
A dead man's statute, also known as to as a dead man act or dead man's rule, is a statute designed to prevent perjury in a civil case by prohibiting a witness who is an interested party from testifying about communications or transactions with a deceased person (a "decedent") against the decedent unless there is a waiver.
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Demonstrative evidence
Demonstrative evidence is evidence in the form of a representation of an object.
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Direct evidence
Direct evidence supports the truth of an assertion (in criminal law, an assertion of guilt or of innocence) directly, i.e., without an intervening inference.
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Direct examination
The direct examination or examination-in-chief is one stage in the process of adducing evidence from witnesses in a court of law.
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Discovery (law)
Discovery, in the law of the United States and other countries, is a pre-trial procedure in a lawsuit in which each party, through the law of civil procedure, can obtain evidence from the other party or parties by means of discovery devices such as a request for answers to interrogatories, request for production of documents, request for admissions and depositions.
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Dispute resolution
Dispute resolution is the process of resolving disputes between parties.
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Documentary evidence
Documentary evidence is any evidence that is, or can be, introduced at a trial in the form of documents, as distinguished from oral testimony.
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Due process
Due process is the legal requirement that the state must respect all legal rights that are owed to a person.
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Electronic discovery
Electronic discovery (also e-discovery or ediscovery) refers to discovery in legal proceedings such as litigation, government investigations, or Freedom of Information Act requests, where the information sought is in electronic format (often referred to as electronically stored information or ESI).
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England and Wales
England and Wales is a legal jurisdiction covering England and Wales, two of the four countries of the United Kingdom.
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English law
English law is the common law legal system of England and Wales, comprising mainly criminal law and civil law, each branch having its own courts and procedures.
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Evidence under Bayes theorem
The use of evidence under Bayes' theorem relates to the likelihood of finding evidence in relation to the accused, where Bayes' theorem concerns the probability of an event and its inverse.
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Exclusionary rule
In the United States, the exclusionary rule is a legal rule, based on constitutional law.
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Exhibit (legal)
An exhibit, in a criminal prosecution or a civil trial, is physical or documentary evidence brought before the jury.
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Expert witness
An expert witness, in England, Wales and the United States, is a person whose opinion by virtue of education, training, certification, skills or experience, is accepted by the judge as an expert.
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False evidence
False evidence, fabricated evidence, forged evidence or tainted evidence is information created or obtained illegally, to sway the verdict in a court case.
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Federal Rules of Evidence
First adopted in 1975, the Federal Rules of Evidence codify the evidence law that applies in United States federal courts.
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Fruit of the poisonous tree
Fruit of the poisonous tree is a legal metaphor in the United States used to describe evidence that is obtained illegally.
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Hearsay
Hearsay evidence is "an out-of-court statement offered to prove the truth of matter asserted".
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Identification (information)
The function of identification is to map a known quantity to an unknown entity so as to make it known.
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Intention (criminal law)
In criminal law, intent is one of three general classes of mens rea necessary to constitute a conventional, as opposed to strict liability, crime.
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James Bradley Thayer
James Bradley Thayer (January 15, 1831 – February 14, 1902) was an American legal writer and educationist.
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John Henry Wigmore
John Henry Wigmore (March 4, 1863 – April 20, 1943) was an American jurist and expert in the law of evidence.
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Judicial notice
Judicial notice is a rule in the law of evidence that allows a fact to be introduced into evidence if the truth of that fact is so notorious or well known, or so authoritatively attested, that it cannot reasonably be doubted.
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Jury
A jury is a sworn body of people convened to render an impartial verdict (a finding of fact on a question) officially submitted to them by a court, or to set a penalty or judgment.
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Law
Law is a system of rules that are created and enforced through social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior.
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Law school
A law school (also known as a law centre or college of law) is an institution specializing in legal education, usually involved as part of a process for becoming a lawyer within a given jurisdiction.
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Lawrence M. Friedman
Lawrence M. Friedman (born April 2, 1930) is an American law professor, historian, expert in American legal history, and author of nonfiction and fiction books.
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Legal technicality
The term legal technicality is a casual or colloquial phrase referring to a technical aspect of law.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.
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Military tribunals in the United States
Military tribunals in the United States are military courts designed to try members of enemy forces during wartime, operating outside the scope of conventional criminal and civil proceedings.
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Negligence
Negligence (Lat. negligentia) is a failure to exercise appropriate and or ethical ruled care expected to be exercised amongst specified circumstances.
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New World
The New World is one of the names used for the majority of Earth's Western Hemisphere, specifically the Americas (including nearby islands such as those of the Caribbean and Bermuda).
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Omnibus hearing
An omnibus hearing is a pretrial hearing.
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Opinion
An opinion is a judgment, viewpoint, or statement that is not conclusive.
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Parallel construction
Parallel construction is a law enforcement process of building a parallel—or separate—evidentiary basis for a criminal investigation in order to conceal how an investigation actually began.
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Parol evidence rule
The parol evidence rule is a rule in the Anglo-American common law regarding contracts, and governs what kinds of evidence parties to a contract dispute can introduce to identify the specific terms of a contract.
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Physician–patient privilege
Physician–patient privilege is a legal concept, related to medical confidentiality, that protects communications between a patient and his or her doctor from being used against the patient in court.
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Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984
The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) (1984 c. 60) is an Act of Parliament which instituted a legislative framework for the powers of police officers in England and Wales to combat crime, and provided codes of practice for the exercise of those powers.
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Priest–penitent privilege
The clergy–penitent privilege, clergy privilege, confessional privilege, priest–penitent privilege, clergyman–communicant privilege, or ecclesiastical privilege is a rule of evidence that forbids judicial inquiry into certain communications (spoken or otherwise) between clergy and members of their congregation.
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Privilege (evidence)
In the law of evidence, a privilege is a rule of evidence that allows the holder of the privilege to refuse to disclose information or provide evidence about a certain subject or to bar such evidence from being disclosed or used in a judicial or other proceeding.
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Procedural law
Procedural law, adjective law, or rules of court comprises the rules by which a court hears and determines what happens in civil, lawsuit, criminal or administrative proceedings.
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Product liability
Product liability is the area of law in which manufacturers, distributors, suppliers, retailers, and others who make products available to the public are held responsible for the injuries those products cause.
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Proof (truth)
A proof is sufficient evidence or a sufficient argument for the truth of a proposition.
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Prosecutor
A prosecutor is a legal representative of the prosecution in countries with either the common law adversarial system, or the civil law inquisitorial system.
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Quantum meruit
Quantum meruit is a Latin phrase meaning "what one has earned".
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Real evidence
Physical evidence (also called real evidence or material evidence) is any material object that plays some role in the matter that gave rise to the litigation, introduced as evidence in a judicial proceeding (such as a trial) to prove a fact in issue based on the object's physical characteristics.
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Reasonable doubt
Reasonable doubt is a term used in jurisdiction of common law countries.
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Reasonable suspicion
Reasonable suspicion is a legal standard of proof in United States law that is less than probable cause, the legal standard for arrests and warrants, but more than an "inchoate and unparticularized suspicion or 'hunch; it must be based on "specific and articulable facts", "taken together with rational inferences from those facts", and the suspicion must be associated with the specific individual.
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Relevance (law)
Relevance, in the common law of evidence, is the tendency of a given item of evidence to prove or disprove one of the legal elements of the case, or to have probative value to make one of the elements of the case likelier or not.
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Self-authenticating document
A self-authenticating document, under the law of evidence in the United States, is any document that can be admitted into evidence at a trial without proof being submitted to support the claim that the document is what it appears to be.
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Silent witness rule
The silent witness rule is the use of "substitutions" when referring to sensitive information in the United States open courtroom jury trial system.
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Spectral evidence
Spectral evidence is a form of evidence based upon dreams and visions.
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Spoliation of evidence
The spoliation of evidence is the intentional, reckless, or negligent withholding, hiding, altering, fabricating, or destroying of evidence relevant to a legal proceeding.
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Spousal privilege
Spousal privilege (also called marital privilege or husband-wife privilege) is a term used in the law of evidence to describe two separate privileges: the communications privilege and the testimonial privilege.
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State secrets privilege
The state secrets privilege is an evidentiary rule created by United States legal precedent.
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Tampering with evidence
Tampering with evidence, or evidence tampering, is an act in which a person alters, conceals, falsifies, or destroys evidence with the intent to interfere with an investigation (usually) by a law-enforcement, governmental, or regulatory authority.
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Testimony
In law and in religion, testimony is a solemn attestation as to the truth of a matter.
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Trier of fact
A trier of fact, or finder of fact, is a person, or group of persons, who determines facts in a legal proceeding, usually a trial.
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Ultimate issue (law)
An ultimate issue in criminal law is a legal issue at stake in the prosecution of a crime for which an expert witness is providing testimony.
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Witness
A witness is someone who has, who claims to have, or is thought, by someone with authority to compel testimony, to have knowledge relevant to an event or other matter of interest.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_(law)
