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INFIRMATIVE FACT [1 record]

Record 1 2013-09-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Evidence
DEF

In the law of evidence, a fact set up, proved, or even supposed, in opposition to the criminative facts of a case, the tendency of which is to weaken the force of the inference of guilt deducible from them. (Black's, p. 700)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit de la preuve
OBS

fait disculpatoire; fait infirmatif : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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