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A witness who has no personal interest in the case.Category: Small Claims Court & Lawsuits
Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary. Gerald N. Hill, Kathleen Thompson Hill. 2009.
disinterested witness
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disinterested witness — A witness who is not biased by reason of any interest in the action … Ballentine's law dictionary
disinterested witness — One who has no interest in the cause or matter in issue, and who is lawfully competent to testify … Black's law dictionary
disinterested witness — One who has no interest in the cause or matter in issue, and who is lawfully competent to testify … Black's law dictionary
witness — wit·ness 1 n [Old English witnes knowledge, testimony, witness, from wit mind, sense, knowledge] 1 a: attestation of a fact or event in witness whereof the parties have executed this release b: evidence (as of the authenticity of a conveyance by… … Law dictionary
disinterested — dis|in|ter|est|ed [ dıs ıntrəstəd ] adjective 1. ) not involved in something and therefore able to judge it fairly: IMPARTIAL: a disinterested witness and observer disinterested advice 2. ) not interested. Many people think that this use of the… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
disinterested — UK [dɪsˈɪntrəstɪd] / US [dɪsˈɪntrəstəd] adjective 1) not involved in something and therefore able to judge it fairly a disinterested witness and observer disinterested advice 2) not interested. Many people think that this use of the word is not… … English dictionary
disinterested — dis·in·ter·est·ed /dis in tə rəs təd, in trəs , in tə ˌres / adj: free of any interest esp. of a pecuniary nature: impartial a disinterested person to witness the will Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 … Law dictionary
disinterest — I (lack of interest) noun aloofness, apathy, boredom, callousness, carelessness, coolness, detachment, disdain, disinterestedness, disregard, heedlessness, inappetance, inappetancy, inattention, inattentiveness, inconsideration, incuriosity,… … Law dictionary
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testament — [13] Testament is one of a range of English words that go back to Latin testis ‘witness’. This was derived from a prehistoric Indo European base *tris ‘three’, and so denoted etymologically a ‘third person’, who was not party to an agreement and… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
