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Parol evidence

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

Black's Law Dictionary

Oral or verbal evidence; that which is given by word of mouth; the ordinary kind of evidence, given by witnesses in court. 3 Bl. Comm. 369.

In a particular sense, and with reference to contracts, deeds, wills, and other writings, parol evidence is the same as extraneous evidence or evidence aliunde. (See supra.)

Partial evidence. that which goes to establish a detached fact, in a series tending to the fact in dispute. It may be received, subject to be rej'ected as incompetent, unless connected with the fact in dispute by proof of other facts; for example, on an issue of title to real property, evidence of the continued possession of a remote occupant is partial, for it is of a detached fact, which may or may not be afterwards connected with the fact in dispute. Code Civ. Proc. Cal. § 1834.
Defined under Evidence in Black's Law Dictionary.