Nolo's Plain-English Law Dictionary
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- Limiting Instructions
- Jury instructions in which a judge instructs that evidence is admissible for one purpose but not for another. The judge will often instruct jurors to consider the evidence only for the legitimate purpose,and ignore it for any other purpose. (See: jury instruction)


