dying declaration
Meanings
noun
- A statement that would normally be deemed inadmissible as evidence in a court of law as hearsay, but is deemed admissible because it was made by a person who believed himself to be dying, is about the circumstances of that person's death, and (in some cases) was followed by that person's actual death.
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