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Definition of Scintilla
1. Noun. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
Generic synonyms: Small Indefinite Amount, Small Indefinite Quantity
Derivative terms: Shred
2. Noun. A sparkling glittering particle.
Definition of Scintilla
1. n. A spark; the least particle; an iota; a tittle.
Definition of Scintilla
1. Noun. A small spark or flash. ¹
2. Noun. A small or trace amount. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scintilla
1. [n -LAE or -LAS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scintilla
Literary usage of Scintilla
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annotated Cases, American and English by H Noyes Greene, William Mark McKinney, David Shephard Garland (1918)
"What Constitutes scintilla of Evidence. Generally,. Illustrations: Evidence Held
to Amount to scintilla, 944. Evidence Held to Amount to Less than scintilla ..."
2. An Introduction to Conveyancing, and the New Statutes Concerning Real by William Hayes (1840)
"Over this invention they cast the veil of latinity, and prudently withdrew it,
under the learned appellation of scintilla juris et tituli, from familiar ..."
3. An Elementary Digest of the Law of Property in Land by Stephen Martin Leake (1874)
"The only practical bearing of this doctrine lay in the suggestion that the
scintilla juris might be dealt with in • a manner to risk the safety of the ..."
4. Shelford's Real Property Statutes: Including the Prcincipal Statutes by Leonard Shelford, Thomas Henry Carson (1874)
"... to uses or scintilla juris be deemed to be suspended, or to remain or to
subsist in him or elsewhere (b). (b) Ae to the doctrine of scintilla juris, ..."
5. The Modern Law of Real Property: With an Introduction for the Student, and by Louis Arthur Goodeve (1885)
"... that before such event this possibility of reverter of the original seisin
should be considered as a ' possibility of seisin' or scintilla juris (r). ..."
6. The General Principles of the Law of Evidence: In Their Application to the by Frank Sumner Rice (1894)
"Nature and Scope of the scintilla Doctrine.—Decided cases may be found, where it
is held that if there is a scintilla of evidence in support of a case, ..."
7. The Ohio Nisi Prius Reports by Ohio Courts (1915)
"Hence it follows that the power of nonsuit and the scintilla rule do not have
... The scintilla rule can have no application to such remedy because of tho ..."
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