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Self-Regarding Evidence

Evl-derice which either serves or disserves the partyis so called. Thls specles of evidence is either self-serving (which is not in general receivable) or self-dlsservlng, which is invariably receivable, as being an admission against the party offering it, and that either dn court or out of court. Brown

Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)