Nolo's Plain-English Law Dictionary
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- Scintilla
- A little bit, from the Latin for "spark." The term is commonly used to refer to evidence -- for example in a lawyer's argument that there is not a "scintilla of evidence" (at least a faint spark) to support one of the other side's claims.
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