business records exception
business-records exception. Evidence. A hearsay exception allowing business records (such as reports or memoranda) to be admitted into evidence if they were prepared in the ordinary course of business. • If there is good reason to doubt a record’s reliability (e.g., the record was prepared in anticipation of litigation), the exception will not apply. Fed. R. Evid. 803(6). — Also termed business-entry rule. [Cases: Criminal Law 436; Evidence 351. C.J.S. Criminal Law §§ 1032, 1034–1037; Evidence §§ 904–915, 917–923, 928–931, 965–966, 1023, 1025.]
