Evidence
The complete list of terms and definitions.
Evidence law governs the rules and processes of how evidence is used in a legal case. There are both state and federal rules of evidence that govern evidence usage in either state or federal court. The rules of evidence mainly lay out how evidence can be obtained, how evidence must be admitted, what evidence is admissible, and what remedies are available for illegally-obtained evidence. Evidence can include tangible evidence, demonstrations, documents, or witness testimony. Listed below are common legal terms associated with evidence law, as well as their dictionary definitions.
- "Clear and Convincing" Evidence
- Acknowledged Documents
- Administrative Hearing
- Admissibility
- Admissibility of Confessions
- Admissibility of Duplicates
- Admissibility of Evidence of Insurance
- Admissibility of Religious Beliefs
- Admissibility of Vital Statistics
- Admission of Party Opponent
- Allegation
- Ancient Document Rule
- Authentication
- Autoptic Evidence
- Best Evidence Rule
- Burden of Persuasion
- Burden of Producing Evidence
- Burden of Proof
- Business Records Exception
- Certified Copies of Public Records
- Character Evidence
- Chart, Summary or Calculation
- Circumstantial Evidence
- Competency of Witness
- Conclusive Evidence
- Conflicting Evidence
- Corroborating Evidence
- Credibility of Witness
- Cross Examination
- Cumulative Evidence
- Curative Instructions
- Declaration Against Interest
- Demeanor
- Demonstrative Evidence
- Direct Evidence
- Direct Examination
- Discovery Process
- Document of Title
- Documentary Evidence
- Dying Declaration
- Error of Law
- Evidence of prior crimes in sexual offense cases
- Evidentiary Facts
- Exceptions
- Excited Utterance
- Exclusionary Rule
- Exculpatory Evidence
- Exhibit
- Expert Evidence
- Expert Qualification
- Extrinsic Evidence
- Eyewitness Testimony
- False Evidence
- Family Records
- Fed.R.Evid. 402
- Fed.R.Evid. 403
- Federal Rules of Evidence
- Habit or Routine Practice
- Harmless Error
- Hearsay
- Hearsay Within Hearsay
- Hostile Witness
- Hypothetical Question
- Identification Evidence
- Impeachment of Witness
- Impertinent Matter
- In Camera
- Inadmissible Pleas
- Incriminating Evidence
- Indicia
- Indirect Evidence
- Indispensable Evidence
- Inference
- Insufficient Evidence
- Interrogation by Court
- Intrinsic Evidence
- Irrelevant
- Judicial Notice
- Jury Instructions
- Lack of Personal Knowledge
- Lay Witness Opinion Testimony
- Leading Questions
- Learned Treatises
- Liability Insurance
- Limited Admissibility
- Marriage and Baptismal Certificates
- Material Evidence
- Misleading Question
- Mode and Order of Interrogation
- Motion in Limine
- Necessary Inference
- Newly Discovered Evidence
- Oath or Affirmation
- Objection to evidence
- Offer of Proof
- Offers to Compromise
- Opinion Evidence
- Opinion on Ultimate Issue
- Oral Deposition
- Oral Evidence
- Other crimes, wrongs or acts
- Overrule an Objection
- Parol Evidence Rule
- Past Recollection Recorded
- Plain Error
- Polygraph results
- Prejudicial Evidence
- Preliminary Hearing
- Preponderance of the Evidence
- Present Sense Impression
- Presumption
- Prima Facie Evidence
- Prior Inconsistent Statements
- Probative Evidence
- Probative Value
- Production of Documents
- Proffered Evidence
- Proof
- Proper Evidence
- Public Documents Under Seal
- Rape Shield Law
- Re-cross examination
- Real Evidence
- Rebuttable Presumption
- Rebuttal Evidence
- Records of Regularly Conducted Activity
- Records of Vital Statistics
- Rehabilitation of Witness
- Relevance
- Res Ipsa Loquitur
- Residual Exception
- Scintilla of Evidence Rule
- Scope of Cross-Examination
- Self Authentication
- Specific Prior Conduct
- Standard of Proof
- Statement Against Interest
- Statements for Purpose of Medical Diagnosis or Treatment
- Subsequent Remedial Measures
- Substantive Evidence
- Suppression of Evidence
- Tangible Evidence
- Telephone Conversations
- Then Existing Mental, Emotional, or Physical Condition
- Traditionary Evidence
- Trial Court
- Unresponsive Answer
- Voice Identification
- Weight of Evidence
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