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there's a difference between things spoken out loud and things written down? to speak is not equivalent to writting

• rrr_oh_man 3y ago
  In most European law, there is no such distinction.
  • lupire 3y ago
    US law too.
  • ysofunny 3y ago
    but there's nonetheless a difference surely not in principle because anything that's been written may be read out and spoken (and viceversa, anything is potentially transcribe-able) nonetheless, when push comes to shove there's a real difference: written stuff (text) is readily usable as evidence but things only ever spoken are not.
    • rrr_oh_man 3y ago
      Spoken as in hearsay? Probably not. Spoken with witnesses? Most definitely.