La. Code Evid. art. 401

This is the official text of La. Code Evid. art. 401, part of Louisiana’s Code of Evidence — sets the rules for what evidence is admissible in Louisiana courts.

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Definition of "relevant evidence"

Official statutory text

"Relevant evidence" means evidence having any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence.

Acts 1988, No. 515, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1989.

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