legal evidence

legal evidence
Evidence which is legally admissible. Legal evidence is not confined to the human voice or oral testimony; it includes every tangible object capable of making a truthful statement, such evidence being roughly classified as documentary evidence. In oral evidence the witness is the man who speaks; in documentary evidence the witness is the thing that speaks. In either case the witness must be competent,-that is, must be deemed competent to make a truthful statement. See Curbs v Bradley, 65 Conn 99, 31 A 591.

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