missing evidence rule

missing-evidence rule. The doctrine that, when a party fails at trial to present evidence that the party controls and that would have been proper to present, the jury is entitled to infer that the evidence would have been unfavorable to that party. [Cases: Evidence 74. C.J.S. Evidence §§ 165, 168.]

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