Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dying declaration

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.99 in modern English

Syllables: dy-ing dec-la-ra-tion
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

5

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A statement that would normally be deemed inadmissible as evidence in a court of law as hearsay, but is deemed admissible because it was made by a person who believed himself to be dying, is about the circumstances of that person's death, and (in some cases) was followed by that person's actual death.

Inflected Forms

dying declarations (plural)

Questions

What does dying declaration mean?: A statement that would normally be deemed inadmissible as evidence in a court of law as hearsay, but is deemed admissible because it was made by a person who believed himself to be dying, is about the circumstances of that person's death, and (in some cases) was followed by that person's actual death.

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