evidentiaryadj.

1780 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. (1789) vii. p. lxxviii Whatever circumstances can be seen to be connected with the consequences of the offence..bear a material relation to the offence in the way of evidence, they may accordingly be stiled evidentiary circumstances.

1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India III. vi. i. 32 The charges ought to be exhibited first; and no evidentiary matter granted.

1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. III. v. iv. 67 To treat it upon the footing of an evidentiary act, with reference to the corresponding principal act.

1845 J. S. Mill Ess. II. 221 But they are evidentiary of a tone of thought which has prevailed so long among the superior intellects.

1875 Contemp. Rev. 26 580 The upward slant..becomes an evidentiary fact of singular cogency.

1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) ii. 201 It is only the adventitious or accidental or evidentiary portion of the title in which they differ.

1955 N.Y. Times 22 Jan. 4/5 Mr. Straus' statement..is evidentiary of his attitude.

2013 M. Hayder Poppet 222 He puts on a pair of nitrile gloves..from a fear of contaminating evidentiary material.

1809 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 101 Property in land shall be conveyed by livery of seisin;—this, though merely an evidentiary formality, is talked of as the command of the legislature.

1821 J. Bentham Elements Art of Packing 181 The clearing of his character..so far as concerns evidentiary trustworthiness.

1879 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. (ed. 5) I. ix. §2. 395 Through its power of modifying the relative force of different evidentiary considerations.

1968 W. A. Glaser Pretrial Discov. iii. 26 Since evidentiary weaknesses at civil trials..cannot be corrected thereafter, each party needs to be fully prepared before trial.

2010 Sunday Times (Nexis) 7 Feb. 8 The videotape of the cell block..contained nothing of any evidentiary value.