Hearsay
Hearsay is something that a person has only learned from other people's stories.
Colloquially , the phrase means that it is only hearsay that one cannot rely on this communication. The German expression roughly corresponds to the Latin phrase relata refero .
The German legal system knows the term " hearsay witness ". The evidential value of such a witness is to be examined particularly critically, as the German Federal Constitutional Court ruled on July 19, 1995 - in connection with the fair trial under Section 261 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in conjunction with Article 20 (3) of the Basic Law .
Individual evidence
- ↑ hearsay at Duden.de.
- ↑ BVerfG, decision of July 19, 1995, Az. 2 BvR 1142/93, guiding principle = NJW 1996, 448.
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