Digest of the Law of Evidence

E571708

Digest of the Law of Evidence is a seminal 19th-century legal treatise that systematically organized and clarified the principles of evidence law in England and influenced evidence codes in other common law jurisdictions.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf legal treatise
non-fiction book
bibliographicCategory treatise
circulation legal profession
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
era Victorian era
format prose text
genre legal commentary
historicalSignificance seminal work in 19th-century evidence law
impact contributed to modernization of evidence law
influenced later treatises on evidence
standard reference on evidence in its time
influenceOn evidence codes
evidence law in common law jurisdictions
judicial reasoning on evidence
legal education in evidence law
legal practice in evidence
jurisdictionCovered England NERFINISHED
knowledgeDomain jurisprudence
legal doctrine
language English
legalDomain law of evidence
legalField procedural law
legalFunction secondary authority
legalSystem English law
legalTradition common law
notableFor clarification of evidentiary rules
impact on codification of evidence law
systematic organization of evidence principles
organizationPrinciple topical arrangement of evidence rules
purpose to clarify rules of evidence
to organize principles of evidence law
structure systematic digest
subjectMatter common law
evidence law
rules of evidence
targetAudience law students
legal practitioners
timePeriod 19th century
typeOfWork doctrinal legal analysis
usedBy judges
lawyers
legal scholars
usedFor interpretation of evidence rules
legal research in evidence law
teaching evidence law

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James Fitzjames Stephen notableWork Digest of the Law of Evidence