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Definition of Incriminatory
1. Adjective. Charging or suggestive of guilt or blame. "Incriminatory testimony"
Similar to: Inculpative, Inculpatory
Derivative terms: Criminate, Criminate, Incriminate
Definition of Incriminatory
1. a. Of or pertaining to crimination; tending to incriminate; criminatory.
Definition of Incriminatory
1. Adjective. That incriminates ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Incriminatory
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Incriminatory
Literary usage of Incriminatory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Act to Regulate Commerce: Construed by the Supreme Court by Hubert Bruce Fuller (1915)
"incriminatory Testimony.— The amendments of section 12 by the Act of March 2,
1889, and the Act of February 10, 1891, were trivial in their nature and ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"When applied to criminal cases such evidence is usually termed inculpatory
statements or incriminatory admissions, and these expressions are frequently used ..."
3. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1912)
"But there is not a particle of evidence in the record that the defendant made
any confession of guilt or stated any circumstances of an incriminatory nature ..."
4. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1910)
"If a witness claims that questions are incriminatory in character and that her
answer thereto ... WITNESS, Answer of, that Testimony will be incriminatory ..."
5. The Law Relating to Interrogatories, Production, Inspection of Documents and by Walter Sydney Sichel, William Chance (1883)
"... and as bad in substance, and they were ordered to be expunged by V.-C. Bacon,
on the ground of their being incriminatory and irrelevant. ..."
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