Pertinent - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Belonging or related to the subject or matter in hand fit or appropriate in any way adapted to the end proposed apposite material relevant as pertinent illustrations or arguments pertinent evidence...
Pertinence
The quality or state of being pertinent justness of relation to the subject or matter in hand fitness appositeness relevancy suitableness...
Pertinents
Pertinents, appurtenants, Scots term....
Pertinacy
The quality or state of being pertinent pertinence...
apposite
apposite : highly pertinent or appropriate ...
devisavit vel non
devisavit vel non [New Latin, (whether) he/she bequeaths or not] : a document that sets forth the questions of fact pertinent to the validity of an alleged will and is sent from a court of probate or chancery to a court of law for a jury trial for judgment as to the validity of the will called also devisat vel non ...
immaterial
immaterial : not essential, pertinent, or of consequence [the jury could have discounted the medical history evidence, or while accepting its accuracy, found it "Willett v. State, 911 S.W.2d 937 (1995)"] compare irrelevant im·ma·te·ri·al·i·ty [i-mə-tir-ē-a-lə-tē] n ...
irrelevant
irrelevant : not relevant : not applicable or pertinent [ allegations] [ evidence] compare immaterial ir·rel·e·vant·ly adv ...
pleading
pleading 1 a : one of the formal declarations (as a complaint or answer) exchanged by the parties in a legal proceeding (as a suit) setting forth claims, averments, allegations, denials, or defenses ;also : a written document embodying such a declaration see also relation back b : any of the allegations, averments, claims, denials, or defenses set forth in a pleading alternative pleading : a pleading that sets out an alternative theory in support of a plaintiff's claim for relief or a defendant's defense amended pleading : a pleading that is filed to replace an original pleading and that contains matters omitted from or not known at the time of the original pleading re·spon·sive pleading [ri-spÄ n-siv-] : a pleading that directly responds to another pleading (as by denying in an answer allegations in a complaint) sham pleading : a pleading that is factually false, is not made in good faith, and that may be struck supplemental pleading : a pleading that supplem...
rest
rest : to bring to an end voluntarily the introduction of evidence in a case [the defense s] vt : to cease presenting evidence pertinent to (a case) [I my case] ...
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