Search results for: “witness testimony”
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Hostile Witness
A witness who has been called in the expectation that he will give testimony favorable to the party calling him, but who proves to be unwilling or adverse , to the complete surprise of the calling party. See Poitier v state , (Fla.App.) 303 So.2d 409.
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Witness
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Witness Meaning of Witness One whose statements and declarations under oath are received as evidence for some purpose, whether such statements or declarations are made on oral examination or by deposition […]
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Witness
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Witness Meaning of Witness One whose statements and declarations under oath are received as evidence for some purpose, whether such statements or declarations are made on oral examination or by deposition […]
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Testimony
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Testimony Meaning of Testimony In technical sense, the term denotes evidence given orally under oath or by means of affidavits or depositions in a court or judicial proceeding . However, the term has […]
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Testimony
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Testimony Meaning of Testimony In technical sense, the term denotes evidence given orally under oath or by means of affidavits or depositions in a court or judicial proceeding . However, the term has […]
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Expert Testimony
Concept of Expert Testimony in the context of Real Property A short definition of Expert Testimony: Testimony by one acknowledged to have special training and knowledge in a particular subject. Only testimony on the subject in which the witness is expert is considered expert testimony.
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Bill To Examine Witnesses De Bene Esse
Bill to perpetuate testimony; de bene esse….
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Bill To Take Testimony De Bene Esse
In equity practice. One which is brought to take the testimony of witnesses to a fact material to the prosecution of a suit at law which is actually commenced, where there is good cause to fear that the testimony may otherwise be lost before the time of trial. See 1 Sim. & S. 83; 2…
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Bill To Perpetuate Testimony
In equity practice. One which is brought to secure the testimony of witnesses with reference to some matter which is not in litigation, but is liable to become so. It differs from a bill to take testimony de bene esse, inasmuch as the latter is sustainable only when there is a suit […]
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Interference
The state of things which exists when a person applies for a patent which, if granted, would cover any of the patentable ground occupied by any existing patent, or by any patent for which an application is then pending. An investigation is ordered by the commissioner of patents, for the […]
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Proof
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Proof Meaning of Proof The result or the effect of evidence ; frequently used as synonymous with competent and legal evidence; testimony . The logically sufficient reason for assenting to the truth of a […]
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Evidence
Grammar This term is a noun. Etimology of Evidence (You may find evidence at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms). c. 1300, “appearance from which inferences may be drawn,” from Old French evidence, from Late Latin evidentia “proof,” in classical […]
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Foundation
The establishment of a charity; that upon which a charity is founded and by which it is supported. This word, in the English law, is taken in two senses, fundatio ineipiens, and fundaiAo perficiens. As to its political capacity, an act of Incorporation is metaphorically called its […]
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Documents
The deeds, agreements, title papers, letters, receipts, and other written instruments used to prove a fact. In Civil Law. Evidence delivered in the forms established by law, of whatever nature such evidence may be. The term is. however, applied principally to the testimony of witnesses. […]