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Definition of Best evidence rule
1. Noun. A rule of evidence requiring that to prove the content of a writing or recording or photograph the original is required.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Best Evidence Rule
Literary usage of Best evidence rule
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of the Law of Evidence by John Jay McKelvey (1907)
"best evidence rule. 272. A writing is the best evidence of its own contents, ...
In its modern application, the best evidence rule amounts to (little more ..."
2. A Preliminary Treatise on Evidence at the Common Law by James Bradley Thayer (1898)
"CHAPTER XL THE "BEST EVIDENCE" RULE.1 WE find, to-day, in our treatises on
evidence, a rule or principle to which is assigned a great, comprehensive place ..."
3. An Illustrated Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Thomas Welburn Hughes (1905)
"THE best evidence rule. § 1. The rale.—Unless a legally sufficient reason is
shown for not doing so, proof of the contents of a document must be made by ..."
4. American Law and Procedure by James Parker Hall, James De Witt Andrews (1910)
"The literal idea of the so-called "best evidence" rule is that a party must prove
... Although, therefore, there is no " best evidence" rule of universal ..."
5. Commentaries on the Law of Evidence in Civil Cases by Burr W. Jones, Louis Horwitz (1913)
"One witness So with the best evidence rule. testified to hearing it in a named
Whether it is first or fourth, it is the room in a building, the other posi- ..."
6. Cyclopedia of Law by Charles Erehart Chadman (1912)
"EXPLANATION OF best evidence rule.—The rule requiring the best evidence to be
produced, means that the evidence must be of such a character as to have an ..."
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