Legal Dictionary

Tag: Evidence

  • Admission By Silence

    Meaning of Admission by Silence Resources See Also Criminal Law Evidence

  • Impeachment

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Impeachment Meaning of Impeachment Proceedings for the removal of an officer of the United States or the state for misconduct in his office or for a crime . The accusation is made, under the provisions of […]

  • Deposition

    Deposition in Law EnforcementMain Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of deposition.ResourcesSee AlsoLaw Enforcement Officer Policeman Law Enforcement Agency Further Reading deposition in A Dictionary of […]

  • Admissions

    Statements, verbal or oral, made by a party or by someone identified with him in legal interest, of the existence of a fact relevant to the issue in question. An admission may also be inferred from the conduct of a party. A formal admission may be made in the pleadings; an informal admission […]

  • Autoptic Proference

    Meaning of Autoptic Proference Resources See Also Demonstrative Evidence Under Evidence Criminal Law Evidence

  • Deponent

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Deponent Meaning of Deponent witness ; one who gives information on oath or affirmation , respecting some fact known to him, before a judicial tribunal ; one who makes a deposition . See Bliss v […]

  • Confidential Communications

    Those statements with regard to any transaction made by one person to another during the continuance of some relation between them which calls for or warrants such communications. At law, certain classes of such communications are held not to be proper subjects of inquiry in courts of […]

  • Confidential Communications

    Those statements with regard to any transaction made by one person to another during the continuance of some relation between them which calls for or warrants such communications. At law, certain classes of such communications are held not to be proper subjects of inquiry in courts of […]

  • Infamy

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Infamy Meaning of Infamy That state which is produced by the conviction of an infamous crime, and the loss of honor, which renders the infamous person incompetent as a witness or juror. 3 Watts & S. (Pa.) […]

  • Foreign Laws

    Foreign Laws

  • Oath

    A pledge or promise by which a person swears that a statement made or about to be made is true.

  • Judicial Admission

    Meaning of Judicial Admission Resources See Also Criminal Law Evidence

  • Substance

    Derived from the Latin phrase sub stare which means to stand under . The essence of a thing as opposed to its form. See Wilson v Wagner, (Tex.Civ.App.)211 S. W.2d 241.

  • Perjury

    While statutory definitions of the term may vary slightly, generally, it is the wilful and corrupt false swearing or affirming, after an oath lawfully administered in the course of a judicial or quasi -judicial proceeding , as to some matter material to the issue or point in […]

  • Time

    A measure of duration. Also, a point in duration; date; occasion. Standard time is the mean solar time defined by the motion of a fictitious sun called the mean sun which is imagined to move with perfect uniformity, being sometimes behind the true sun and sometimes in advance of same. See […]