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Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review Feb 1904

Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

The American Political Science Association; The Bill of Rights and The Right to Labor; Right to Impeach the Consideration of a Judgment Rendered in Another State; the Function of the "Exhibit" in Copde Pleading; Lapse of Residuary Gifts; "Voluntary Confessions"; The Competency of the Conduct of Bloodhounds as Evidence in Criminal Cases; The "Reasonable Use" of Subterranean Waters


The Physician As An Expert, Harry B. Hutchins Jan 1904

The Physician As An Expert, Harry B. Hutchins

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Expert evidence is evidence of a scientific or technical character in regard to a matter that is outside the domain of ordinary experience and knowledge. The evidence is usually in the form of opinions or conclusions based upon facts that for the purposes of an opinion are assumed to be true, although it may be in regard to scientific facts. The expert is one who has had special training or opportunities in a particular subject that the ordinary witness has not enjoyed, and who has thereby acquired certain habits of judgment.that render his explanations and opinions in the field of …