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Judicial proceeding
Judicial proceeding, 'Judicial proceeding' includes any proceeding in the course of which evidence is or may be legally taken on oath, Suraj Mall Mohta and Co. v. A.V. Vishwanatha Sastri, AIR
Alibi
in order to prove that he could not have committed the crime with which he is charged, offers evidence that he was in a different place at the time the offence was committed. Else ware, in law
Title
(as ownership, possession, and custody) constituting the legal right to central and dispose of property; the 2. Legal evidence of a person's ownership rights in property; an chastenment (such as a deed) that constitute such evidence 3.
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Exhibit
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
Unus Nullus Rule, The
Unus Nullus Rule, The, the rule of evidence which obtains in the Civil Law, that the testimony of one witness is equivalent to the testimony of
Previous conviction
to the jury on the trial of a subsequent offence until after conviction of it, unless (see CRIMINAL EVIDENCE ACT) the prisoner gives evidence of good character, in which case, or after conviction of the subsequent offence,
Marriage, Promise of
the parties were excepted amongst others) from the general abolition of admissibility of parties as witnesses under the Evidence Act,1851, but this exception was removed by the Evidence Further Amendment Act, 1869, under which, however, the plaintiff
Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus
neither a sound rule of law nor a rule of practice. Hardly one comes across a witness whose evidence does not contain a grain of untruth or at any rate exaggerations, embroideries or embellishments, Vgar Ahir v.
Cause of action
in the suit. For the aforementioned purpose, the material facts are required to be stated but not the evidence except in certain cases where the pleading relied on any misrepresentation, fraud, breach of trust, wilful default or
warrant
warrant that is issued on the basis of an affidavit showing probable cause that there will be certain evidence at a specific location at a future time called also anticipatory warrant arrest warrant : a warrant issued
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