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Hearsay Objections
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Law
12th Grade
11/27/2011

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Term

Hearsay

Definition

 

 

An out of court statement offered to prove the truth of the matter asserted. 

Term
Prior Statement by Witness
Definition

801 d 1

 

Not hearsay

Term
Statement by a Party Opponent
Definition

801 d 2

 

Not hearsay

Term
Present Sense Impression
Definition

803 1

 

a statement describing an event or condition made while the declarant was perceiving the event or condition or immediately thereafter.

 

Exception to the hearsay rule

Term
Then Existing Mental, Emotional or Physical Conditions
Definition

803 3

 

A statement of the declarant's then existing state of mind, emotion, sensation or physical condition but not including a statement of memory or belief to prove the fact remembered. 

 

Hearsay exception

Term
Statements for Purposes of Medical Diagnosis or Treatment
Definition

803 4

 

statements made for the purpose of medical diagnosis or treatment

 

Hearsay Exception

Term
Records of Regularly Conducted Business
Definition

803 6

 

A report, record or data compilation, in any form made by a person with knowledge if kept in the course of regularly conducted business

 

Hearsay Exception

Term
Learned Treatises
Definition

803 7

 

statements contained in a published treatises, periodicals or pamphlets on a subject of medicine established as a reliable authority by the testimony of the witness.

 

Hearsay Exception

Term
Reputation as to Character
Definition

803 8

 

Reputation of a person's character among associates or in the community

 

Hearsay Exception

Term
Declarant Unavailable
Definition

804 a 3

 

the declarant is unable to be present or to testify at the trial because of the death or then existing physical or mental illness or infirmity

 

Hearsay Exception

Term
Statement Against Interest
Definition

803 b 3

 

A statement which was at the time of its making so far contrary to the declarant's interest or so far tended to subject the declarant to civil liability or to render invalid a claim by the declarant against another. 

 

Hearsay Exception

Term
Statement of Personal or Family History
Definition

803 b 4

 

a statement concerning the declarant's own birth, adoption, marriage, divorce, relationship by blood, ancestry etc. or a statement concerning the foregoing matters and death of another person if the declarant is related to the other by blood

 

Hearsay exception

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