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Definition of Circumstantial evidence

1. Noun. Evidence providing only a basis for inference about the fact in dispute.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Circumstantial Evidence

Literary usage of Circumstantial evidence

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Principles of the Law of Evidence: With Elementary Rules for Conducting by William Mawdesley Best, Charles Frederic Chamberlayne (1883)
"298 Direct evidence 293 circumstantial evidence.... 293 Comparison between direct and presumptive evidence 2Ji Conclusive 293 Advantages of direct over pt»- ..."

2. A Treatise on the Law of Criminal Evidence: Including the Rules Regulating by Harry Clay Underhill (1898)
"circumstantial evidence consists of facts proved from which the jury may infer ... On the other hand, the rules of circumstantial evidence have opened the ..."

3. A Treatise on the Criminal Law of the United States by Francis Wharton (1874)
"circumstantial evidence," said Gibson, CJ, in a capital case, in his charge to the ... The only difference between positive and circumstantial evidence is, ..."

4. A Treatise on Judicial Evidence by Jeremy Bentham, Etienne Dumont (1825)
"ticular portion of circumstantial evidence, or even any particular body of ... Do not be satisfied with circumstantial evidence; when you can obtain from ..."

5. A Manual for Courts-martial, Courts of Inquiry and of Other Procedure Under by United States War Dept (1916)
"circumstantial evidence.—circumstantial evidence is not resorted to ... circumstantial evidence may furnish a safe and satisfactory ground for belief, ..."

6. A General View of the Criminal Law of England by James Fitzjames Stephen (1863)
"It appears to me that the phrases are ill chosen and calculated to mislead ; that the difference alleged to exist between direct and circumstantial evidence ..."

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