Competent evidence

That which the very nature of the thing to be proven requires, as, the production of a writing where its contents are the subject of inquiry. 1 Greenl. Ev. § 2; Chapman v. McAdams, 1 Lea (Tenn.) 504; Hor-bach v. State, 48 Tex. 249. Also, generally, admissible or relevant, as the opposite of "incompetent," (see infra ) State v. Johnson, 12 Minn. 476 (Gil. 378), 93 Am. Dec. 241.

— Conclusive evidence. that which is incontrovertible, either because the law does not permit it to be contradicted, or because it is so strong aud convincing as to overbear all proof to the contrary and establish the proposition in question beyond any reasonable doubt. Wood v. Chapin, 13 N. Y. 509, 67 Am. Dec. 62; Haupt v. Pohlmann, 24 N. Y. Super. Ct. 121; Moore v. Hopkins, 83 Cal. 270, 23 Pac. 318, 17 Am. St. Rep. 248; West v. West, 90 Iowa, 41, 57 N. W. 639; Freese v. Loan Soc., 139 Cal. 392, 73 Pac. 172 ; People v. Stephenson, 11 Misc. Rep. 141, 32 N. Y. Supp. Ill2.

Defined under Evidence in Black's Law Dictionary.