PREPONDERANCE OF THE EVIDENCE

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preponderance of the evidencenoun
Wiktionary (English) • 2026
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A legal standard, applied in many jurisdictions for deciding the outcome of civil disputes, which requires that evidence be sufficient to determine that a claim is more likely to be true than false.

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