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Exhibit, a document or other thing shown to a witness when giving evidence, and referred to by him in his evidence. The term is usually applied to a document referred to in, but not annexed to, an affidavit, and shown to the witness when the affidavit is sworn. A certificate, signed by the person before whom the affidavit is sworn, identifying the document, is indorsed upon the exhibit, and the deponent merely refers to it in the affidavit as 'the [document] now produced and shown to me marked A,' or as the case may be. The fee of the Commissioner for Oaths in respect of each exhibit is one shilling. See R.S.C., Ord. XXXVIII., rr. 23 and 24.

A document, record or other tangible object formally introduced as evidence in court, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 595