"Because Stockton wanted some disinterested witness to back up his testimony."

To The Shadow, seemingly a disinterested witness, this policy was helpful.

The testator must sign and date the will, usually in the presence of at least two disinterested witnesses (persons who are not beneficiaries).

Holmes was scarcely a disinterested witness, but outrageous is not too strong a word to describe the actions of some colonial authorities.

Every minute of Harry's absence from his room was covered by a perfect alibi, supported by disinterested witnesses.

According to the law he needed disinterested witnesses to the act from outside the family, which might have meant hiring a private detective to lie in wait.

It is better that disinterested witnesses should affirm that this case was really found on the corpse of Torres!"

The words "testimony" and "testify" both have a root in the Latin testis, referring to the notion of a third person, disinterested witness.

Prosecutors say such recanting is common, and the crimes of domestic violence almost always occur behind closed doors, out of sight of disinterested witnesses.

In the days and weeks after the murder, the police talked to several disinterested witnesses who said they had seen Jenkins alive as late as April 10.

His father, a clergyman, had been a stern interpreter of the gospel, his mother a mute, disinterested witness to the punishments inflicted on her son.

"That will help," mused Ruthley, "but it would be better if some disinterested witnesses could testify to Beezer's ability as a killer.

For example, in Virginia, an interested witness may testify only as to the statements of the deceased if this testimony is corroborated by a disinterested witness.

The evidence that the house is haunted is of two kinds: the testimony of disinterested witnesses who have had ocular proof, and that of the house itself.

The US State Department objected to the verdict, calling it "inconsistent with persuasive testimony by credible and disinterested witnesses as well as firearm and other physical evidence".

Finally, the record includes ample corroboration of her testimony by independent and disinterested witnesses, by documentary evidence, and in part, by the grand jury testimony of the President himself.

Each codicil must conform to the same legal requirements as the original will, such as the signatures of the testator and, typically, two or three (depending on the jurisdiction) disinterested witnesses.

"Well, according to my theory of the case, and according to the testimony of Don Graves, a disinterested witness, there was," said Drumm, "and, if the test is going through, that has got to stand.

"It may be well for you to remember," Blaine said significantly, "that, according to the testimony of this disinterested witness, Mr. Peter Kent, who apparently is your client, deposited something in this receptacle at around midnight.

They point out that all the provisions for disinterested witnesses, including the special ombudsman for patients under custodial care, pertain only to the written directive, which could be executed either decades or hours ahead of a specific request to be killed.

But a few minutes later, a disinterested witness saw a girl who looked like Cathy Brainard, and was dressed like her, carrying a pack and equipment as if for an overnight hike, starting down Bright Angel Trail alone.

Up until that point, Mr. Desplechin has seemed like a disinterested witness to the goings-on of his two principal characters, Nora (Emmanuelle Devos), a bourgeois mother who runs an art gallery, and her former lover, a violist named Ismal (Mathieu Amalric).

The testimony a grand jury elicits is not subject to impeachment by interested parties, and such testimony may come from immunized witnesses, from witnesses who fear prosecution, from witnesses prepared by the prosecution, from witnesses with a history of untruthfulness - or from disinterested witnesses.

Despite the fact that there were several disinterested witnesses THE FOREVER WAR to Graubard's demise, there was a persistent rumor that I'd had Doc Alsever simply exterminate him-since I'd botched the job myself and didn't want to go through a troublesome court-martial.