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Definition :

Weight of evidence, such superiority in the evidence for one side over that for the other as calls for a verdict for the first. When a new trial is asked for on the ground that the verdict is against the weight of the evidence, the judge who tried the cause is consulted, and it does not very often happen that a new trial is ordered if he reports that he is satisfied with the verdict (R.S.C. Ord. XXXIX., r. 6, and notes thereto in Annual Practice).

The persuasiveness of some evidence in comparison with other evidence, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1588.