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CLJ 4
CLJ 4
1. WHAT IS EVIDENCE?
- Evidence is the mean of ascertaining in a judicial proceedings the truth respecting a matter
of fact, encompasses the rules and legal principles that govern the proof of facts in a legal
proceeding.
2. TESTIMONIAL EVIDENCE- this type of evidence is always use during trials, which a person
or witness testimony offered to prove the truth of the matter asserted.
3. DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE- means any form of hand writing or any materials that consist
of letters, numbers and symbols or other modes of written expression offered as proof of their
content.
- The relevancy of evidence must have such a relation to the fact issue as to induce belief in
its existence or non-existence or to have probative value to make one of the elements of case
likelier or not.