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BEST EVIDENCE Definition & Legal Meaning

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Primary evidence, as distinguished from secondary; original, as distinguished from substitutionary; the best and highest evidence of which the nature of the case is susceptible. A written instrument is itself always regarded as the primary or best possible evidence of Its ex- BL.LAW DICT.(2D ED.)

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