PENURIA TESTIUM

penuria testium (p[schwa]-nyoor-ee-[schwa] tes-tee-[schwa]m). [Latin] Hist. A scarcity of witnesses. “The disqualifications formerly attaching to witnesses, and especially that of relationship, were sometimes disregarded in occult or private facts, where there must, from the nature of the case, be a scarcity of unexceptionable witnesses …. It was not enough in this sense, to constitute a […]