Adverse Witness
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A witness who manifests a bias against the party calling him. A party may be allowed to propound leading questions to such a witness. ADVERSUS (Lat.) Against.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A witness whose mind discloses a bias hostile to the party examining him; not a witness whose evidence, being honestly given, is adverse to the case of the examinant. Brown; Greenough v. Eccles, 5 O. B. (N. S.) 801.
Defined under Witness in Black's Law Dictionary.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A _ witness whose mind discloses a bias hostile to the party examining him; not a witness whose evidence, being honestly given, is adverse to the case of the examinant, Brown.