The Collaborative International Dictionary
Interrogatory \In`ter*rog"a*to*ry\, n.; pl. Interrogatories.
A formal question or inquiry; esp. (Law), a question or
series of questions asked in writing, usually as part of a
lawsuit.
--Macaulay.
Interrogatory \In`ter*rog"a*to*ry\, a. [L. interrogatorius.] Containing, expressing, or implying a question; as, an interrogatory sentence.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, from Late Latin interrogatorius "consisting of questions," from past participle stem of interrogare "to ask, question" (see interrogation).
Wiktionary
a. Serving to interrogate; questioning. n. 1 (context legal English) A formal question submitted to opposing party to answer, generally governed by court rule. 2 A question; an interrogation.
WordNet
adj. relating to the use of or having the nature of an interrogation [syn: interrogative, asking(a)] [ant: declarative, declarative]
n. formal systematic questioning [syn: interrogation, examination]
Usage examples of "interrogatory".
If a girl entered a house, the spy who had followed her, waited for her, stopped her as she came out, and subjected her to an interrogatory.
October 1, the new: Interrogatories quoted from court records in Jones Civil Action, No.
Virginia statutes in his citations even got some of the locals there recanting on their interrogatories, claim they were tricked by the fancy language where Szyrk claims his sculpture is site specific for the moral torpor and spiritual vacuity of the place the only words they got hold of were moral and spiritual, thought it was all some big tribute.
Instead, he did all the things that Robbie despised-office management, the brief-writing, the interrogatories, routine deps, and, especially, the endless comforting demanded by their clients, who usually felt intensely victimized.
Some mixup over a clouded title to the land where Szyrk put up his Cyclone Seven, threw in the court's failure to cite the Virginia statutes in his citations even got some of the locals there recanting on their interrogatories, claim they were tricked by the fancy language where Szyrk claims his sculpture is site specific for the moral torpor and spiritual vacuity of the place the only words they got hold of were moral and spiritual, thought it was all some big tribute.
The rector, after examining the localities and submitting to a lengthy interrogatory first my accomplice, who very naturally was considered as the most guilty, and then myself, whom nothing could convict of the offence, ordered us to get up and go to church to attend mass.
There was a residential sublet, an employment agreement, written interrogatories for a bankruptcy, a form for the Franchise Tax Board, and two drafted letters threatening lawsuits on behalf of his clients—.
There was a residential sublet, an employment agreement, written interrogatories for a bankruptcy, a form for the Franchise Tax Board, and two drafted letters threatening lawsuits on behalf of his clientsone for an artist against a gallery refusing to return his unsold paintings, and one for George Morton's mistress, who claimed that the parking attendant at Sushi Roku had scratched her Mercedes convertible while parking it.
He had sent more interrogatories, but Chorth-Captain had fallen silent again.
She'd schedule deps, issue subpoenas and interrogatories, handle court filings, even meet with clients to gather info and hold hands.
A trial takes place, with depositions and interrogatories, in which the truth is elicited in spite of the most adverse testimony.
And if this is some kind of amateurish interrogatory, Soviet style, practice on someone else.
What was his own inward definitive response to the unbribable interrogatory of fatality?