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Approver, or Prover [fr. approver, Fr., to consent unto], an accomplice in crime who accuses others of the same offence, and is admitted as a witness as the discretion of the Court to give evidence against his companions in guilt. He is vulgarly called 'King's evidence.' This testimony must necessarily be of an unsatisfactory nature, and the practice is for Judges to leave it to juries with the direction not to believe it unless corroborated in some material particular by independent untainted testimony [In re Meunier, 1894 (2) QB 415]....
Prover
Prover, an approver (q.v.)....
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