Definition of Hearsay

Hear´say`   Pronunciation: hēr´sā`
n.1.Report; rumor; fame; common talk; something heard from another.
Hearsay evidence
(Law) that species of testimony which consists in a narration by one person of matters told him by another. It is, with a few exceptions, inadmissible as testimony.
- Abbott.


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