SELF-SERVING STATEMENT

A statement or utterance made that serves the benefit of the speaker. … [Read more...] about SELF-SERVING STATEMENT

A statement made that has no evidentiary value and serves no useful purpose other than furthering the or reinforcing a party's position, e.g. are the kind of honest person who wouldn't commit fraud? … [Read more...] about SELF-SERVING

Evidence which either serves or disserves the party is so called. This species of evidence is either self-serving (which is not in general receivable) or self-disserving, which is invariably receivable, as being an admission oagainst the party offering it, and that either in court or but of court Brown. … [Read more...] about SELF-REGARDING EVIDENCE

A will created in such a way that a probate court will be able to decide that a will is valid as that of the decedent. In most states a self-proving will includes the signature of two witnesses who sign under penalty of perjury that they watched the will maker sign the will and that the maker told them that the document was his or her will. If the will is uncontested, the … [Read more...] about SELF-PROVING WILL

See SUICIDE. … [Read more...] about SELF-MURDER, OR SELF-SLAUGHTER