What is CUMULATIVE EVIDENCE? Definition of CUMULATIVE EVIDENCE in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.
Additional or corroborative evidence to the same point. That which goes to prove what has already been established by other evidence. Glidden v. Dunlap, 28 Me. 383; Parker v. Hardy, 24 Pick., Mass., 248; Waller v. Graves, 20 Conn. 310; Roe v. Kalb, 37 Ga. 459; Purcell Envelope Co. v. United States, 48 Ct.C1. 66, 73.
All evidence material to the issue, after any such evidence has been given, is in a certain sense cumulative; that is, is added to what has been given before. It tends to sustain the issue. But cumulative evidence, in legal phrase, means evidence from the same or a new witness, simply repeating, in substance and effect, or adding to, what has been before testified to. Parshall v. Klinck, 43 Barb., N.Y., 212. Evidence is not cumulative merely because it tends to establish the same ultimate or principally controverted fact. Cumulative evidence is additional evidence of the same kind to the same point. Able v. Frazier, 43 Iowa, 177; Harlan v. Texas Fuel & Supply Co., Tex.Civ.App., 160 S.W. 1142, 1146.
Cumulative Offense
One which can be committed only by a repetition of acts of the same kind but committed on different days. The offense of being a "common seller" of intoxicating liquors is an example. Wells v. Corn., 12 Gray., Mass., 328.
Cumulative Remedy
A remedy created by statute in addition to one which still remains in force. Railway Co. v. Chicago, 148 Ill. 141, 35 N.E. 881; State v. Barboglio, 63 Utah, 432, 226 P. 904, 907; Philip Levy & Co. v. Davis, 115 Va. 814, 80 S.E. 791, 794; Wulff-Hansen & Co. v. Silvers, Cal.App., 120 P.2d 677, 680.
Cumulative Voting
A system of voting, by which the elector, having a number of votes equal to the number of officers to be chosen, is allowed to concentrate the whole number of his votes upon one person, or to distribute them as he may see fit. For example, if ten directors of a corporation are to be elected, then, under this system, the voter may cast ten votes for one person, or five votes for each of two persons, etc. It is intended to secure representation of a minority. Bridgers v. Staton, 150 N.C. 216, 63 S.E. 892; Chicago Macaroni Mfg. Co. v. Boggiano, 202 Ill. 312, 67 N.E. 17; Attorney General v. McVichie, 138 Mich. 387, 101 N.W. 552.
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