hearsay rule
- A regulation forbidding the use of statements made outside court as proof, unless they meet certain exceptions, because the maker of these statements isn't present for cross-examination
- Violating the hearsay rule, the lawyer tried to use a conversation overheard in a restaurant as evidence.
- The judge dismissed the presented evidence as it did not comply with the hearsay rule.
- Under the hearsay rule, the emailed statement could not be admitted as evidence.
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