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heard through another rather than directly

Hearsay evidence is generally not permitted in the United States. It generally is permitted in England for civil cases.

Like great primitive birds welded up out of iron by hearsay in a land perhaps where such birds once had been.
Cormac McCarthy -- All the Pretty Horses
Based on hearsay rather than personal experience?
Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
The ladies pass the time with gossip and hearsay.
Libba Bray -- Sweet Far Thing
They can only take them on hearsay.
E.M. Forster -- Howards End
People are telling you lies and hearsay.
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere -- Tartuffe
It would just be hearsay testimony.
Robert Penn Warren -- All the King's Men
That was when I was a child; I know about it from hearsay and tradition.
Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
Of course I only speak from hearsay.
Oscar Wilde -- An Ideal Husband
I knew by hearsay that he was the editor of the American Mercury, but aside from that I knew nothing about him.
Richard Wright -- Black Boy
In court, that's nothing more than hearsay.
Nicholas Sparks -- A Bend in the Road
No, this is new and, I might add, hearsay.
Ted Dekker -- Black: The Birth of Evil
Hearsay testimony is not admissible.
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee -- Inherit the Wind
There was nothing but words, transparent but vague; sometimes idle reports, rumors, hearsay.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
These were chiefly people from the northern suburbs, whose knowledge of the Black Smoke came by hearsay.
H.G. Wells -- The War of the Worlds
In any event, what Mike and Ootek had told me was largely hearsay evidence, and this was not what I was employed to gather.
Farley Mowat -- Never Cry Wolf
But he knew, more from hearsay than from personal experience, that such easy happiness could not last very long.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Love in the Time of Cholera
His guide was sleeping somewhere, probably with the mules, a thin nervous creature, who had never been to Las Casas; he simply knew the route by hearsay.
Graham Greene -- The Power and the Glory
'By hearsay,' answered Bazarov angrily.
Ivan Turgenev -- Fathers and Sons
It was all hearsay, you know.
Ted Dekker -- Red: The Heroic Rescue

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