Monday, 11 August 2014

Use in litigation

Main article: Habit evidence
Habit evidence is a term used in the law of evidence in the United States to describe any evidence submitted for the purpose of proving that a person acted in a particular way on a particular occasion based on that person's tendency to reflexively respond to a particular situation in a particular way. Habit evidence differs from character evidence, which seeks to show that a person behaved in a particular way on a particular occasion based on things like that person's prior bad acts or reputation in the community, and which is generally inadmissible.

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