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direct evidence

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direct evidence
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(Law) Law evidence, usually the testimony of a witness, directly relating to the fact in dispute Compare circumstantial evidence
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Noun1.direct evidence - evidence (usually the testimony of a witness) directly related to the fact in dispute
evidence - (law) all the means by which any alleged matter of fact whose truth is investigated at judicial trial is established or disproved
law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"
circumstantial evidence, indirect evidence - evidence providing only a basis for inference about the fact in dispute


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He gave full, satisfactory, and direct evidence on every point; and the prince's name was, thanks to this, not brought into the proceedings.
The Idiot by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
That the money came from Bulstrode would infallibly have been guessed even if there had been no direct evidence of it; for it had beforehand entered into the gossip about Lydgate's affairs, that neither his father-in-law nor his own family would do anything for him, and direct evidence was furnished not only by a clerk at the Bank, but by innocent Mrs.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
There were many such whispers as these in circulation; but the truth appears to be that, after the lapse of some five years (during which there is no direct evidence of her having been seen at all), two wretched people were more than once observed to crawl at dusk from the inmost recesses of St Giles's, and to take their way along the streets, with shuffling steps and cowering shivering forms, looking into the roads and kennels as they went in search of refuse food or disregarded offal.
The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens, Charles View in context
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