FLEET-BOOK EVIDENCE


Meaning of FLEET-BOOK EVIDENCE in English

ˈflēt- noun

Usage: usually capitalized F

Etymology: so called from the fact that books recording clandestine marriages in Fleet prison chapel, London, England, and in nearby houses were declared inadmissible as evidence in British courts

Britain : evidence usually documentary that is inadmissible because inherently unreliable

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