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Jerry Norton
Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
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Heinrich Nagel
Emeritus Professor of Civil and International Civil Procedure, Georg August University of Göttingen, Germany. Former Presiding Judge, Hanseatic Court of Appeals, Bremen. Author of Internationales Zivilprozessrecht...
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evidence, in law, any of the material items or assertions of fact that may be submitted to a competent tribunal as a means of ascertaining the truth of any alleged matter of fact under investigation before it. To the end that court decisions are to be based on truth founded on evidence, a primary duty of courts is to conduct proper proceedings so as to hear and consider evidence. The so-called law of evidence is made up largely of procedural regulations concerning the proof and presentation of facts, whether involving the testimony of witnesses, the presentation of documents or physical ...(100 of 6424 words)

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