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Circumstantial evidence

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circumstantial evidence

Matched in: Term circumstantial evidence

Burden of proof

necessarily be direct evidence, i.e. oral or documentary evidence or admissions made by opposite party; it may comprise circumstantial evidence or presumption of law or fact, Kundan Lal Rallaram v. Custodian Evacuee Property, AIR 1961 SC 1316 (1318).

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Proved

to act upon the supposition that it exists. This definition of 'proved' does not draw any distinction between circumstantial and other evidence, State of Maharashtra v. Mohd. Yakub, AIR 1980 SC 1111: (1980) 3 SCC 57: (1980)

Accomplice

to accept the version of the prosecutrix on its face value, it may search for evidence, direct or circumstantial, which would lend assurance to her testimony. Assurance, short of corroboration, as understood in the context of an

Sufficiency of evidence

Matched in: Term Sufficiency of evidence

impeach

see also impeachment evidence at evidence compare rehabilitate NOTE: A witness may be impeached by character evidence or circumstantial evidence relating to the credibility of the witness, and esp. on the grounds of prior convictions, prior inconsistent statements,

Res ipsa loquitur

inference or presumption that a defendant was negligent in an accident injuring the plaintiff on the basis of circumstantial evidence if the accident was of a kind that does not ordinarily occur in the absence of negligence, Cox

Indirect evidence

Matched in: Term Indirect evidence

res ipsa loquitur

inference or presumption that a defendant was negligent in an accident injuring the plaintiff on the basis of circumstantial evidence if the accident was of a kind that does not ordinarily occur in the absence of negligence [a

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