hearsay

     

Hearsay is a legal term referring to the use of out of court statements as evience.

Trivia about hearsay

  • The witness is testifying based on what someone else told her--that's called this
  • Unverified gossip or rumor; it's often excluded from court
  • Rumor has it, this evidence is not based on a witness' firsthand knowledge
  • This type of legal evidence is unverified, unofficial & not part of one's direct knowledge