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  • n., 1. Every means by which an alleged fact is either proved or disproved. 2. An assertion of fact, opinion, belief or knowledge, whether material or not and whether admissible or not. 3… 4… 5… 6… [The Dictionary of Canadian Law, 3rd ed. c2004]
  • n., 1. Something (including testimony, documents, and tangible objects) that tends to prove or disprove the existence of an alleged fact. 2… [Black’s Law Dictionary, 8th ed. c2004]
  • n., A thing, a document, or the testimony of a person that bears on the truth or falsity of an assertion made in litigation; the totality of such items introduced in a trial; the legal doctrines pertaining to the admission, use, and evaluation of such items. [Webster’s New World Law Dictionary. c2006]
  • n., All the means by which any alleged matter of fact, the truth of which is submitted to investigation, is established or disproved.