The power of the court to recognize certain facts without proof actually being offered.
A court's recognition of the truth of basic facts without formal evidence.
The procedure by which a judge recognizes the existence of the truth of a certain fact having bearing on the case without the production of evidence because such fact is established by common notoriety. For example, if the accident happened on Thanksgiving, the judge can take judicial notice that the accident happened on a Thursday.
The act by which a court, in conducting a trial or framing its- decision, will, of its own motion and without the production of evidence, recognized the existence and truth of certain facts having a bearing on the controversy at bar, which, from their nature are not properly the subject of testimony, or which are universally regarded as established by common notoriety.
Judicial Notice is a rule in the law of evidence that allows a fact to be introduced into evidence if the truth of that fact is so notorious or well known that it cannot be refuted. This is done upon the request of the party seeking to have the fact at issue determined by the court. Matters admitted under judicial notice are accepted without being formally introduced by a witness or other rule of evidence, and even if one party wishes to lead evidence to the contrary.