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Hearsay

'hearsay', that is, spoken or documentary evidence that is a report of someone else's observation (see: Hearsay), not that of the reporter himself;

This seems to me to be more of a layman's definition of hearsay and not the legal definition. I'm going to alter it to being a statement submitted as evidence other than that given in testimony at trial which is submitted to prove the truth of its contents.

mike - June 6 -

writing down or saying to someone -

perhaps we should use "communicates"