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Definition of Self-serving
1. Adjective. Interested only in yourself.
Definition of Self-serving
1. Adjective. Showing interest only in oneself ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-serving
Literary usage of Self-serving
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Thomas Welburn Hughes (1905)
"Declarations against interest which are also, in a measure, self-serving.—It
sometimes happens that declarations arc both ..."
2. The Principles of the Law of Evidence: With Elementary Rules for Conducting by William Mawdesley Best, John Archibald Russell, Appleton Morgan (1882)
"The subject of self-serving evidence may therefore be despatched in few words,
and indeed has been substantially considered under the title " res inter ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Indirect and Collateral Evidence by John Henry Gillett (1897)
"self-serving acts of party.—For the same reason that the self-serving declarations
of a party are incompetent as evidence in his favor, so his self-serving ..."
4. Walker's Errors in Civil Proceedings: Being the Errors in Civil Proceedings by William Slee Walker (1917)
"self-serving allegations and statements. (a) Admission of statements by defendant
not bearing on his liability. In an action for recovery under a contract, ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of Criminal Evidence: Including the Rules Regulating by Harry Clay Underhill (1898)
"Declarations which are self-serving are rejected.—The statements or declarations
of the accused in his own favor which are independent of the res gesta of ..."
6. A Treatise on the System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law: Including the by John Henry Wigmore (1904)
"Self-Serving " Statements by an Accused Person. There is no principle of evidence
especially excluding " self-serving " statements by an accused or by any ..."
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