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Evidentiary

Evidentiary \Ev`i*den"ti*a*ry\, a. Furnishing evidence; asserting; proving; evidential.

When a fact is supposed, although incorrectly, to be evidentiary of, or a mark of, some other fact.
--J. S. Mill.

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evidentiary

a. (context legal English) Of or pertaining to ''evidence''.

WordNet
evidentiary
  1. adj. pertaining to or constituting evidence; "evidentiary technique"; "an evidentiary fact"

  2. serving as or based on evidence; "evidential signs of a forced entry"; "its evidentiary value" [syn: evidential]

Usage examples of "evidentiary".

They want to know our position on the legislative package changing the evidentiary requirement for child abuse cases.

Jed exploded as Mike went from liquor and perfume discussions to submission to evidentiary tests for a murder investigation.

You made him look bad with that unfortunate evidentiary matter the other day.

Braun had to admit that by permitting Hardy to continue without any evidentiary base, she was opening herself up to rebuke.

There were many other evidentiary points, but he knew that Pratt would have an explanation for how each of them fit her own theory.

I may hold have not been and will not be permitted to influence my reading of the law or of the evidentiary documents.

Mike went from liquor and perfume discussions to submission to evidentiary tests for a murder investigation.

Neither the finding, the arresting, nor the indicting of a defendant has evidentiary value and none are proof of guilt.

Our search appeared to have yielded little, if anything, of evidentiary value.

On June 10, I filed a motion requesting an evidentiary hearing on the Kanarek-Hughes substitution.

The following day one of the attorneys complained, and Judge Choate conducted an evidentiary hearing in open court.

Judge Lesh had reviewed all the written motions in advance and was ready to rule on them without holding an evidentiary hearing.

I found it, so a crime technician could process it for fingerprints or anything else of evidentiary value.

I say that as long as Mrs Templeton is shielded by the rules of evidentiary procedure, there is little I can hope to learn in cross- examination.

The writings, emails, and screenplays shall be reduced to printed documents to be analyzed for evidentiary value.