Meaning & use
dehors
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Outside of, or beyond the scope of, especially used in legal writing to mean outside the record or terms of a document.
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The appeal relied on evidence dehors the trial record, which the court refused to consider.
Any claims dehors the contract's written terms will not be enforced.
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Borrowed from French, "dehors" survives in English almost exclusively as a technical legal term meaning "outside" a specific document or record.
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