Only rarely are they permitted to present hearsay evidence - that is, rumors or secondhand accounts relating to the parties to the action.

No questions have surfaced about the reliability of his statements, which are mainly secondhand accounts of the murder.

According to a secondhand account, he overcame her resistance to his bringing other women in to live with them.

No bard worth his strings would ever take secondhand accounts for the whole truth.

Especially not when those secondhand accounts were so-unembellished.

What she knows she has learned from neighbors who have attended meetings, but these secondhand accounts lack the authority and finality of official reports.

For one thing, reports of Picasso's and Braque's early moviegoing come from secondhand accounts.

Other information comes from furtive conversations or secondhand accounts of people who have seen bands in Europe.

Much of our information about the monuments is conjecture or questionable secondhand accounts - that makes this an article about how the wonders probably worked.

The officials said that much of the information was unverifiable, incomplete and based on secondhand accounts by people whose reliability could not be evaluated.