Admission - any statement of fact made by a party

against his interest

or unfavorable to the conclusion for which he
contends or is inconsistent
with the facts alleged by him.
Best Evidence Rule - is that rule which requires the
highest grade of
evidence obtainable to prove a disputed fact.
Burden Of Evidence - logical necessity on a
party during a particular time of the trail to create a
prima facie case in his favor or to destroy that
created against him by presenting evidence.
Burden Of Proof/Risk of Non-Persuasion - the duty
of a party to present
evidence on the facts in issue necessary to establish
his claim or defense
by the amount of evidence required by law.
Character - the aggregate of the moral qualities
which belong to and
distinguish an individual person.
Circumstantial Evidence - is the proof of a fact or
facts from which
taken either singly or collectively, the existence or a
particular
fact in dispute may be inferred as a necessary or
probable consequence.
Common Reputation - is the definite opinion of the
community in which
the fact to be proved is known or exists. It means the
general or
substantially undivided reputation, as distinguished
from a partial or
qualified one, although it need not be unanimous.
Competency Of A Witness - is the legal fitness or
ability of a witness
to be heard on the trial of a cause.
Competent Evidence - one that is not excluded by
this Rules, a statute
or the Constitution.
Compromise - is an agreement made between two
or more parties as a
settlement matters in dispute.
Conclusive Evidence - the class of evidence which
the law does not allow
to be contradicted.
Confession - categorical acknowledgement of guilt
made by an accused
in a criminal case, without any exculpatory statement
or explanation.
If the accused admits having committed the act in
question but alleges

a justification therefore, the same is merely an

admission.
Judicial Confession - one made before a court in
which the case
is pending and in the course of legal proceedings
therein and,
by itself, can sustain a conviction even in capital
offenses.
Extra Judicial Confession - one made in any
other place or
occasion and cannot sustain a conviction unless
corroborated by
evidence of the corpus delicti. This section refers
to extrajudicial
confessions.
Corroborative Evidence - is additional evidence of a
difference character
to the same point.
Cumulative Evidence - evidence of the same kind
and to the same state
of facts.
Demonstrative Evidence - is a tangible evidence
that merely illustrates
a matter of importance in the litigation such as maps,
diagrams,
models, summaries and other materials created
especially for litigation.
Direct Evidence - that which proves the fact in
dispute without the
aid of any inference or presumption.
Doctine Of Processual Presumption - absent any of
the evidence or admission,
the foreign law is presumed to be the same as that in
the Philippines.
Document - any substance having any matter
expressed or described upon
it by marks capable of being read.
- is a deed, instrument or other duly authorized
appear by
which something is proved, evidenced or set forth.
Documentary Evidence - evidence supplied by
written instruments or derived
from conventional symbols, such as letters, by which
ideas are represented
on material substances.
Dying Declaration - The ante mortem statements
made by a person after
the mortal wound has been inflicted under the belief
that the death is
certain, stating the fact concerning the cause of and
the circumstances surrounding the attack.