verbal evidence

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Merseyside Police confirmed its detectives will examine transcripts after Alphonse Rudakubana and Laetitia Muzayire gave verbal evidence last week.

From BBC • Nov. 12, 2025

Former foster care and children's home residents who submitted statements and gave verbal evidence related a string of harrowing experiences to the inquiry.

From BBC • Jun. 17, 2019

From that time he led a long, useful life of activity in his office, one of the first Prussian jurists who supported trial by jury, publicity, and verbal evidence, against the State government.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav

They appealed to the law-courts and adduced verbal evidence in support of their purchase and ownership of the farm; the sale had been a public one.

From Native Life in South Africa by Plaatje, Sol (Solomon Tshekisho)

The expression “parol evidence,” which includes written as well as verbal evidence, has often been applied to the extrinsic evidence produced for the purpose of varying the nature of the transaction embodied in a document.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various