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Definition of Lay witness
1. Noun. Any witness who does not testify as an expert witness.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lay Witness
Literary usage of Lay witness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Workmen's Compensation and Industrial Insurance Under Modern Conditions by James Harrington Boyd (1913)
"Form of certificate and 212. oath of lay witness. (f) 198. Formal procedure to
obtain 213. ... (c) Form of lay witness's certificate in proof of death. ..."
2. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences embracing the entire range of by Albert Henry Buck (1908)
"In a great number of cases, the lay witness is very valuable and sometimes is
indispensable. He is indispensable when no physician viewed the body after ..."
3. Archaeologia Cambrensis by Cambrian Archaeological Association, Thomas Rowland Powel, Donald Moore (1895)
"178, the name of a lay witness to a grant of land at Welsh Bicknor, in the Counties
of Monmouth and Hereford; ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of by Montana Supreme Court (1912)
"It is a settled rule that a lay witness may give in evidence his opinion on many
... The only case where a lay witness may express an opinion on matters ..."
5. Cases on the Law of Evidence: Selected from Decisions of English and by Edward Wilcox Hinton (1919)
"Where the issue is whether a person is of sound or unsound mind, a lay witness
who has had an adequate opportunity to observe the speech and other conduct ..."
6. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"EVIDENCE <&=474(4), 568(2)—WEIGHT OF TESTIMONY OF lay witness ... Testimony of
lay witness as to sanity or insanity of a person is admissible in evidence, ..."
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