indirect evidence

Other forms: indirect evidences

Definitions of indirect evidence
  1. noun
    evidence providing only a basis for inference about the fact in dispute
    synonyms: circumstantial evidence
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    evidence
    (law) all the means by which any alleged matter of fact whose truth is investigated at judicial trial is established or disproved
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