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DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE Definition & Legal Meaning

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Such evidence as is furnished by written instruments,inscriptions, documents of all kinds, and also any inanimate objects admissible for the purpose, as distinguished from “oral” evidence, or that delivered by human beings viva voce.

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