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Incompetent evidence

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

Evidence Which is not admissible under the established rules of evidence; evidence which the law does not permit to be presented at ali, or in relation to the particular matter, on account of lack of originality or of some defect in the witness, the document, or the nature of the evidence itself.

Texas Brewing Co. v. Dickey (Tex. Civ. App.) 43 S. W. 578; Beil v. Bumstead, 60 Hun, 580, 14 N. Y. Supp. 607; Atkins v.' Blwell, 45 N. Y. 757; People v. Mullings, 83 Cal. 138, 23 Pac. 229, 17 Am. St. Rep. 223.