judicial notice
- The court's ability to acknowledge facts that are generally known or cannot be disputed, without requiring evidence
- The judge declared a judicial notice of the hot weather, as it was common knowledge that temperatures were soaring.
- The court took judicial notice of the current date, as nobody would dispute the day's correctness.
- Rather than wasting time establishing the well-known fact, the judge took judicial notice that winter is colder than summer.
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