enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Foundation (evidence) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_(evidence)

    F.R.E. 602 provides the rule relating to the necessary foundation that must be laid for a witness to testify on a particular matter. [30] [3] The rule states that a sufficient amount of evidence must be proposed to show that the witness has personal knowledge of the matter. [30] [3]

  3. Federal Rules of Evidence - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Rules_of_Evidence

    First adopted in 1975, the Federal Rules of Evidence codify the evidence law that applies in United States federal courts. [1] In addition, many states in the United States have either adopted the Federal Rules of Evidence, with or without local variations, or have revised their own evidence rules or codes to at least partially follow the federal rules.

  4. Opinion evidence - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_evidence

    Opinion evidence refers to direct evidence outlining what the expert witness, believes, or infers in regard to facts, as distinguished from personal knowledge of the facts themselves. [1] In common law jurisdictions the general rule is that a witness is supposed to testify as to what was observed and not to give an opinion on what was observed.

  5. Business records exception - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_records_exception

    The record must have been made at or near the time of the act, event, or transaction at issue. Furthermore, the record must consist of matters either within the personal knowledge of the entrant or within the personal knowledge of someone with a duty to transmit the information to the entrant. This last point was contested in the case of Johnson v.

  6. Evidence (law) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_(law)

    According to Rule 401 of the Federal Rules of Evidence (FRE), evidence is relevant if it has the "tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence." [9] Federal Rule 403 allows relevant evidence to be excluded "if its ...

  7. Recorded recollection - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorded_recollection

    A recorded recollection (sometimes referred to as a prior recollection recorded), in the law of evidence, is an exception to the hearsay rule which allows witnesses to testify to the accuracy of a recording or documentation of their own out-of-court statement based on their recollection of the circumstances under which the statement was recorded or documented – even though the witness does ...

  8. Hearsay in English law - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearsay_in_English_Law

    Although the hearsay rule is directed only at references to statements asserted for the truth of their contents, the courts were alive to the dangers of circumstantial as well as direct evidence: [8] the hearsay rule operates in two ways: (a) it forbids using the credit of an absent declarant as the basis of an inference, and (b) it forbids ...

  9. Outline of evidence law in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_evidence_law_in...

    The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to evidence law in the United States: Evidence law in the United States – sets forth the areas of contention that generally arise in the presentation of evidence in trial proceedings in the U.S.