Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Contributory \Con*trib"u*to*ry\, a.
Contributing to the same stock or purpose; promoting the same
end; bringing assistance to some joint design, or increase to
some common stock; contributive.
--Milton.
Bonfires of contributory wood.
--Chapman.
Contributory negligence (Law), negligence by an injured
party, which combines with the negligence of the injurer
in producing the injury, and which bars recovery when it
is the proximate cause of the injury.
--Wharton.
Contributory \Con*trib"u*to*ry\, n.; pl. Contributories.
One who contributes, or is liable to be called upon to
contribute, as toward the discharge of a common indebtedness.
--Abbott.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of, pertaining to, or involving a contribution 2 Tending to contribute to a result
WordNet
adj. tending to bring about; being partly responsible for; "working conditions are not conducive to productivity"; "the seaport was a contributing factor in the growth of the city"; "a contributory factor" [syn: conducive, contributing(a), contributive, tributary]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "contributory".
Furthermore, since awards for sentimental family relationships are generally forbidden, and survivors may not seek damages for mental suffering or grief, he may even end with a negative value, going so far as to tempt the defendant, where contributory negligence is involved, to turn the tables and sue for recovery himself.
The climax of this proof was the removal of the maker's name from the dead man's shoes, and a fact strongly contributory was the attempt to destroy the identity of the boat.
CHAPTER 112 The Blacksmith Availing himself of the mild, summer-cool weather that now reigned in these latitudes, and in preparation for the peculiarly active pursuits shortly to be anticipated, Perth, the begrimed, blistered old blacksmith, had not removed his portable forge to the hold again, after concluding his contributory work for Ahab's leg, but still retained it on deck, fast lashed to ringbolts by the foremast.
Ordinarily this lavatorial dereliction would have caught Captain Cullen's eye and vocabulary, but in the present his mind was filled with making westing, to the exclusion of all other things not contributory thereto.
This is called contributory negligence, and will largely relieve the defendant of his own.
You are here instructed to dismiss the latter's claim on the grounds of contributory negligence on her part, in the assumption of risk in providing her consent as evidenced at the time by 'her tearful gratitude that her son had been baptized and entered the waiting arms of the Lord in a state of grace,' and on the further grounds of her remarriages since the event, reclaiming her name as the boy's mother for the sole purpose of participating in this action.
Yes yes of course, but I think you'll see something in there about contributory negligence that needs clearing up?
I was simply wait, here it is, contributory negligence is never a defense to strict liability but often the opposite is held?
One major contributory factor to Peterborough's post-Warming prosperity had been its burgeoning maritime links.
An act was the sum of its contributory parts: not another two-thousand-year-old dictum but a platitude of her Sorbonne tutor.
An outgoing personality and a trusting nature would be filed as contributory negligence on an NYPD homicide sheet.
He said leaving the keys in the panel was contributory negligence.
And in some ways I felt responsible for her present condition, through a kind of contributory negligence.
The guaranties do not apply to provocation and contributory negligence.
I could understand the conductor's position, and beside, in the law, I had been guilty myself of contributory negligence.