hearsay exception
C34749
concept
A hearsay exception is a legal rule that allows certain out-of-court statements to be admitted as evidence despite normally being excluded as hearsay, because they are deemed sufficiently reliable or necessary.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| hearsay exception canonical | 6 |
Description generation (CDg)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.
Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: hearsay exception
Generated description
A hearsay exception is a legal rule that allows certain out-of-court statements to be admitted as evidence despite normally being excluded as hearsay, because they are deemed sufficiently reliable or necessary.
Instances (2)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| Evidence Code § 1220 | — |
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Rule 804
surface form:
Rule 804(b)(1)
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