An eyewitness, a witness who has firsthand knowledge or experience of the matter or event and can testify as to what happened. … [Read more...]

The admission or receiving of a third person to plead his right in a cause formerly commenced between two other persons; as, when an action is brought against a tenant for life or years, or any other particular tenant, and he makes default, in such case the reversioner may move that he may be received to defend his right, and to plead with the demandant. … [Read more...]

An entire thing; an entirely new or untouched matter. This term is applied to those points of law which have not been decided, which are untouched by dictum or decision. … [Read more...]

See rescission. To abrogate, annul, avoid, or cancel a contract; particularly, nullifying a contract by the act of a party. … [Read more...]

evidence. This is a technical phrase which signifies acts of others, or transactions between others. 2. Neither the declarations nor any other acts of those who are mere strangers, or, as it is usually termed, any res inter alios ada, are admissible in evidence against any one when the party against whom such acts are offered in evidence, was privy to the act, the objection … [Read more...]