direct evidence

direct evidence
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Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. . 1996.

direct evidence
n.
Evidence that proves a fact directly, without inference or presumption; evidence provided by a witness who actually saw or experienced what happened. See also circumstantial evidence, indirect evidence

The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. . 2008.


direct evidence
in the law of evidence, evidence of a fact in issue given by a witness who came to it through his own senses or evidence from a document or item produced before the court. See circumstantial evidence.

Collins dictionary of law. . 2001.


direct evidence
Real, tangible, or clear evidence of a fact, happening, or thing that requires no thinking or consideration to prove its existence, as compared to circumstantial evidence.
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Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary. . 2009.


direct evidence
Evidence in the form of testimony from a witness who actually saw, heard, or touched the subject of questioning. Evidence that, if believed, proves existence of the fact in issue without inference or presumption. That means of proof which tends to show the existence of a fact in question, without the intervention of the proof of any other fact, and which is distinguished from circumstantial evidence, often called indirect.
Evidence that directly proves a fact, without an inference or presumption, and which in itself, if true, conclusively establishes that fact.

Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.


direct evidence
I
Evidence in the form of testimony from a witness who actually saw, heard, or touched the subject of questioning. Evidence that, if believed, proves existence of the fact in issue without inference or presumption. That means of proof which tends to show the existence of a fact in question, without the intervention of the proof of any other fact, and which is distinguished from circumstantial evidence, often called indirect.
 
Evidence that directly proves a fact, without an inference or presumption, and which in itself, if true, conclusively establishes that fact.
II Proof of facts by witnesses who saw acts done or heard words spoken.

Short Dictionary of (mostly American) Legal Terms and Abbreviations.

direct evidence
n.
   real, tangible or clear evidence of a fact, happening or thing that requires no thinking or consideration to prove its existence, as compared to circumstantial evidence.

Law dictionary. . 2013.

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