credibility of a witness

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• Witness impeachment — Witness impeachment, in the law of evidence, is the process of calling into question the credibility of an individual who is testifying in a trial. There are a number of ways that a witness may properly be impeached, and several ways that,… …   Wikipedia

• credibility — I noun appearance of truth, auctoritas, believability, believableness, credibleness, faithfulness, fides, integrity, plausibility, probity, rectitude, reliability, tenability, tenableness, trustworthiness, truthfulness, uprightness, veracity,… …   Law dictionary

• Witness — For other uses, see Witness (disambiguation). Evidence …   Wikipedia

• credibility — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ great, high ▪ real ▪ moral, political, professional, scientific ▪ personal …   Collocations dictionary

• WITNESS — (Heb. עֵד, one that has personal knowledge of an event or a fact. The evidence of at least two witnesses was required for convicting the accused (Num. 35:30; Deut. 17:6; 19:15; cf. I Kings 21:10, 13). Commercial transactions of importance took… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Credibility — refers to the objective and subjective components of the believability of a source or message. Traditionally, modern, credibility has two key components: trustworthiness and expertise, which both have objective and subjective components.… …   Wikipedia

• credibility — Worthiness of belief; that quality in a witness which renders his evidence worthy of belief. After the competence of a witness is allowed, the consideration of his credibility arises, and not before. As to the distinction between competency and… …   Black's law dictionary

• credibility — Worthiness of belief; that quality in a witness which renders his evidence worthy of belief. After the competence of a witness is allowed, the consideration of his credibility arises, and not before. As to the distinction between competency and… …   Black's law dictionary

• credibility — noun /ˈkɹɛd.ə.bɪ.ɫɪ.ti/ a) reputation impacting ones ability to be believed After weeks of blowing smoke, her credibility with me was next to nil. b) Whether or not a witness is being truthful. The primary measure of credibility is whether the… …   Wiktionary

• Credible witness — In the law of evidence, a credible witness is a person making testimony in a court or other tribunal, or acting otherwise as a witness, whose credibility is unimpeachable. A witness may have more or less credibility, or no credibility at all. In… …   Wikipedia

• impeachment of witness — An attack on the credibility of a witness by the testimony of other witnesses that the facts about which he has testified are other than as he has stated; by proof that his general reputation is bad; by proof that he has previously made… …   Ballentine's law dictionary