hearsay evidence

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   evidence based on what someone has told the witness and not of direct knowledge

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Questions about hearsay evidence

What does hearsay evidence mean?

hearsay evidence means "evidence based on what someone has told the witness and not of direct knowledge".

Is hearsay evidence a common word?

hearsay evidence is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.