Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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direct evidence

1. Evidence that is based on personal knowledge or observation and that, if true, proves a fact without inference or presumption. - Also termed positive evidence. Cf. circumstantial evidence; negative evidence. 2. See original evidence (1). "A little reflection shows that no disputed case will ordinarily be proved solely by circumstantial or solely by testimonial evidence. Ordinarily there is evidence of both kinds. The matter has been obscured by the use of the term 'direct evidence,' - a term sometimes used to mean testimonial evidence in general, but sometimes also limited to apply only to testimony directly asserting the fact-in-issue .... The term 'direct' evidence has no utility." John H. Wigmore, A Students' Textbook of the Law of Evidence 40 (1935).

indirect evidence

See circumstantial evidence.

indirect evidence.

See circumstantial evidence under EVIDENCE.