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  2. Res gestae - Wikipedia

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    Res gestae is also used to refer to those facts or things done which form the basis or gravamen for a legal action. Res gestae is also used in the context of the doctrine of respondeat superior, or the law of vicarious liability. Particularly, res gestae refers to time, place, and in the interest of an employer. [10]

  3. Excited utterance - Wikipedia

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    Res gestae; Learned treatise ... Wills, trusts and estates; Criminal law; An excited utterance, in the law of evidence, is a statement made by a person in response to ...

  4. Present sense impression - Wikipedia

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    A present sense impression, in the law of evidence, is a statement made by a person (the declarant) that conveys his or her sense of the state of an event or the condition of something. The statement must be spontaneously made while the person was perceiving (i.e. contemporaneous with) the event or condition, or "immediately thereafter."

  5. Collateral estoppel - Wikipedia

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    Collateral estoppel (CE), known in modern terminology as issue preclusion, is a common law estoppel doctrine that prevents a person from relitigating an issue. One summary is that, "once a court has decided an issue of fact or law necessary to its judgment, that decision ... preclude[s] relitigation of the issue in a suit on a different cause of action involving a party to the first case". [1]

  6. Res Gestae (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Res Gestae is Latin term meaning "things done", and may refer to: Res gestae, a legal term in American jurisprudence and English law; The term appears in titles of works recording the accomplishments of certain people, including: Res Gestae Divi Augusti, the funerary inscription of the Roman emperor Augustus

  7. Talk:Res gestae - Wikipedia

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    The first section is unclear which country's Rules of Evidence are referred to. The first statement may only refer to U.S. jurisprudence, as res gestae is still accepted in of parts Canada at least. Also, the syntax used is unclear whether it is the term or the rule that is discredited.

  8. Judicial notice - Wikipedia

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    Judicial notice is a rule in the law of evidence that allows a fact to be introduced into evidence if the truth of that fact is so notorious or well-known, or so authoritatively attested, that it cannot reasonably be doubted.

  9. List of Latin phrases (R) - Wikipedia

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    The legal, moral, political, and social principles used by a court to compose a judgment's rationale. ratio legis: reasoning of law: A law's foundation or basis. ratione personae: by reason of his/her person: Also "jurisdiction ratione personae" the personal reach of the courts jurisdiction. [2] ratione soli: by account of the ground: Or ...