Fleet-book evidence
noun
ˈflēt-
British
: evidence usually documentary that is inadmissible because inherently unreliable
Word History
Etymology
so called from the fact that books recording clandestine marriages in Fleet prison chapel, London, England, and in nearby houses were declared inadmissible as evidence in British courts
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