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Definition of Direct evidence

1. Noun. Evidence (usually the testimony of a witness) directly related to the fact in dispute.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Direct Evidence

Literary usage of Direct 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 Elemenatry 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 Practical Treatise of the Law of Evidence by Thomas Starkie, George Morley Dowdeswell, John George Malcolm, George Sharswood (1876)
"adduced direct evidence; and in civil cases the resorting to such a practice would, in a doubtful case, be a circumstance pregnant with the strongest ..."

3. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1916)
"Appellant on the trial adduced no direct evidence on this point. Indirectly his evidence as to residence had a bearing on this issue, but direct evidence ..."

4. A Treatise on Judicial Evidence by Jeremy Bentham, Etienne Dumont (1825)
"In truth, as the portions of direct evidence, increasing in number, ... Consequently, all these portions of direct evidence assume the character of ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"By direct evidence is meant the statement of a person who saw, or otherwise ... Juries naturally attach more weight to direct evidence, and in some legal ..."

6. The General Principles of the Law of Evidence: In Their Application to the by Frank Sumner Rice (1894)
"Circumstances are always looked to, to support or contradict direct evidence, and direct evidence is absolutely necessary to prove the facts upon which the ..."

7. Trial Evidence: The Rules of Evidence Applicable on the Trial of Civil by Austin Abbott (1880)
"direct evidence of intention.]—Some of the English decisions * declare that direct evidence of intention is inadmissible, unless the two claimants whose ..."

8. The Complete Works of Edward Livingston on Criminal Jurisprudence by Edward Livingston, Salmon Portland Chase (1873)
"OF direct evidence. Art. 185. Although the effect of direct evidence, when established to be true, is conclusive of the fact in question ; yet the truth of ..."

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