If a treatise, periodical, or similar literature is shown to be reliable and authoritative on a topic, under some circumstances a statement in such literature about the topic falls within an exception to the prohibition against the admission of hearsay evidence.

Contributed in 2009 & last edited in 2010 by Peter Tillers
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