§ 13:3711 Legislative journals; conclusively presumptive
§ 13:3712 Copies as prima facie proof; judicial notice of municipal and parochial ordinances
§ 13:3712.1 Labor reports; child and spousal support proceedings; prima facie proof
§ 13:3713 Federal enactments, regulations, decisions, prima facie evidence
§ 13:3713.1 “E911” tape recordings or records; court order; certified copies; attestation
§ 13:3714 Charts or records of hospitals, other health care providers; admissibility of certified or attested copy; BAC scientific analysis reports
§ 13:3715 Court order for chart or record of state operated health care facility; certified copy as sufficient compliance
§ 13:3715.1 Medical or hospital records of a patient; subpoena duces tecum and court order to a health care provider; reimbursement for records produced
§ 13:3715.3 Peer review committee records; confidentiality
§ 13:3715.4 Confidentiality of risk management and other information
§ 13:3715.5 Confidentiality of communication from health care provider
§ 13:3715.6 Records of a nonprofit health care quality improvement corporation; testimony; confidentiality
§ 13:3716 Deed of sheriff or others authorized to make public sales; prima facie proof of authority
§ 13:3717 Uniform proof of statutes law; printed books and pamphlets as prima facie evidence
§ 13:3718 Same; construction and citation
§ 13:3719 Instruments acknowledged before U.S. diplomatic and consular officials admissible in evidence
§ 13:3720 Instruments attested by witnesses and accompanied by affidavit; admissible in evidence
§ 13:3721 Parol evidence to prove debt or liability of deceased person; objections not waivable
§ 13:3722 Same; evidence required when parol evidence admissible
§ 13:3723 Files or records of courts of parish; production; copy unnecessary
§ 13:3724 Notes of testimony; description of document, record or paper
§ 13:3725 Attestation or certificate of consul, etc., as evidence of authority of officer of foreign country
§ 13:3726 Public land patent, certificate or receipt; admissibility of copy of record
§ 13:3728 Ancient document; admissible in civil suits
§ 13:3729 Same; definition
§ 13:3730 Same; acknowledgment or proof of authenticity not required
§ 13:3731 Same; admissibility of copies
§ 13:3732 Statements by injured person regarding accident or injury; copies furnished injured person or personal representatives
§ 13:3733 Business records; reproduction by electronic imaging, photographic, photostatic, or miniature photographic process; certification
§ 13:3733.1 Financial institution records; reproductions; recordkeeping; admissibility into evidence; definitions
§ 13:3733.2 Financial institution records containing electronic signatures; admissibility into evidence
§ 13:3733.3 Financial institution records; enforcement of electronic signatures
§ 13:3734 Privileged communication between health care provider and patient
§ 13:3734.2 Privileged communications between persons and religious authorities relating to matrimonial rights or status
§ 13:3735 Evidence of adoption
§ 13:3736 Safety standards acts violations; cause determined by trier of fact; not prima facie evidence of negligence; contributing negligence
§ 13:3738 Judicial demands for attorney fees
§ 13:3740 Proof of contents of lost instrument
§ 13:3741 Advertisement to recover lost instrument; exceptions; bond

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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 13 > Chapter 17 > Part II - Evidence in General

  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
  • Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
  • Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
  • Committee membership: Legislators are assigned to specific committees by their party. Seniority, regional balance, and political philosophy are the most prominent factors in the committee assignment process.
  • Communication: means the acquiring, recording or transmittal, of any information, in any manner whatsoever, concerning any facts, opinions or statements necessary to enable the health care provider to diagnose, treat, prescribe or to act for the patients; said communications may include, but are not limited to any and all medical records, office records, hospital records, charts, correspondence, memoranda, laboratory tests and results, x-rays, photographs, financial statements, diagnoses and prognoses. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:3734
  • corporation: means a nonprofit corporation organized under and pursuant to the Nonprofit Corporation Law, as provided in Chapter 2 of Title 12 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3397.3
  • corporation: shall mean the nonprofit corporation authorized to be formed by this Part or any corporation succeeding to the principal functions thereof or to which the powers conferred upon the corporation by this Part. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3396.2
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Donor: The person who makes a gift.
  • Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • Health care provider: means a hospital, as defined in this Subsection, and means a person, corporation, facility, or institution licensed by the state to provide health care or professional services as a physician, hospital, dentist, registered or licensed practical nurse, pharmacist, optometrist, podiatrist, chiropractor, physical therapist, psychologist, social worker, or licensed professional counselor and an officer, employee, or agent thereof acting in the course and scope of his employment. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:3734
  • Hospital: means any hospital as defined in Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:3734
  • Impeachment: (1) The process of calling something into question, as in "impeaching the testimony of a witness." (2) The constitutional process whereby the House of Representatives may "impeach" (accuse of misconduct) high officers of the federal government for trial in the Senate.
  • Inter vivos: Transfer of property from one living person to another living person.
  • Legacy: A gift of property made by will.
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Patient: means a natural person who receives health care from a licensed health care provider. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:3734
  • PIPS: means units by which the effort and quality of improvement activities are measured. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3602
  • Plan: means an uncompleted professional improvement program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3602
  • Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. Source: OCC
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
  • Program: means a completed five-year professional improvement program, or refers to the subject of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3602
  • Representative: means the spouse, parent, tutor, curator, trustee, attorney or other legal agent of the patient. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:3734
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Subpoena duces tecum: A command to a witness to produce documents.
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
  • system: means and refers to the programs and institutions under the jurisdiction of the respective management boards for postsecondary education created by or under authority of the Constitution of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3202
  • Teacher: means any public school classroom teacher, librarian, school counselor, secondary vocational instructor, principal, assistant principal, or other personnel for whom a valid Louisiana teaching certificate is required for employment; any teacher in an institution which offers thirteenth and fourteenth grade instruction; any speech therapist who possesses a valid Louisiana ancillary certificate issued by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education; and any instructor seeking to continue in the program who has been transferred from the Department of Public Safety and Corrections to vocational-technical schools under the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3602
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • Voir dire: The process by which judges and lawyers select a petit jury from among those eligible to serve, by questioning them to determine knowledge of the facts of the case and a willingness to decide the case only on the evidence presented in court. "Voir dire" is a phrase meaning "to speak the truth."