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>>qqqqqu+(OP)
Law. How much of it rests on technicalities, and how much do judges care about the essence of the facts of a case? You only hear about the weird outcomes on the news. For example, I was once working with an attorney because my landlord didn’t supply heat in the apartment. I started keeping a temperature log, but how would a judge know that the log was accurate? Do I need to prove that my thermometer is accurate... etc. In practice, no, but how can I better reason about what is “likely” vs not?

>>memset+YD
IANAL, but if your log was introduced in evidence in your suit, you would be attesting under oath it was correct to the best of your knowledge. If it later turned out you faked the data, that would be perjury. So it's the threat of punishment for perjury that motivates honesty in court.