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- noun law In the law of
evidence , a document which is admissible as an exception to thehearsay rule, and which is consideredself-authenticating , because it is older than a certain age (usually twenty years), in a condition that makes it free from suspicion concerning its authenticity, and was found in a place where such a writing was likely to be kept.
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