relevance in law

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• relevance — rel·e·vance / re lə vəns/ n: the quality or state of being relevant: relation to the matter at hand ruled on the relevance of the testimony relevance in discovery has been broadly interpreted Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster.… …   Law dictionary

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• Relevance — is a term used to describe how pertinent, connected, or applicable something is to a given matter. A thing is relevant if it serves as a mean to a given purpose. Imagine a patient suffering a well defined disease such as scurvy caused by lack of… …   Wikipedia

• Relevance (law) — Relevance, in the common law of evidence, is the tendency of a given item of evidence to prove or disprove one of the legal elements of the case, or to have probative value to make one of the elements of the case likelier or not. Evidence that is …   Wikipedia

• Relevance (disambiguation) — Relevance is a measure of how pertinent, connected, or applicable something is.Relevance may also refer to:*Relevance (information retrieval), a measure of a document s applicability to a given subject or search query *Relevance (law), regarding… …   Wikipedia

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• Relevance — Rel e*vance (r?l ?*vans), Relevancy Rel e*van*cy ( van*s?), n. 1. The quality or state of being relevant; pertinency; applicability. [1913 Webster] Its answer little meaning, little relevancy bore. Poe. [1913 Webster] 2. (Scots Law) Sufficiency… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• law of limitation — law that sets a time limit on the relevance of certain matters to the public …   English contemporary dictionary

• Relevance (information retrieval) — In the context of information science and information retrieval, relevance denotes how well a retrieved set of documents (or a single document) meets the information need of the user. Topical relevance and other kinds of relevance Relevance most… …   Wikipedia