Self-Regarding Evidence
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Evidence which either serves or disserves the party is so called. This species of evidence is either self-serving (which is not in general receivable), or self -disserving, which is invariably receivable, as being an admission against the party offering it, and that either in court or out of court.
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