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Definition of Material witness
1. Noun. A witness whose testimony is both relevant to the matter at issue and required in order to resolve the matter.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Material Witness
Literary usage of Material witness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical Treatise on the Criminal Law: Comprising the Practice, Pleadings by Joseph Chitty (1819)
"... as on his majesty's behalf are on oath objected against him by GH for that he
being a material witness to prove a certain felony, lately committed, ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Samuel March Phillipps (1822)
"If the defendant is unable to proceed to trial, on account of Material«lithe
absence of a material witness, he may move the court in ness a ent, term-time, ..."
3. A Treatise on Criminal Procedure by Francis Wharton, James Manford Kerr (1918)
"L Absence of material witness. § 1518. Such absence ground for continuance if
due diligence is shown. § 1519. And so on unauthorized withdrawal of witness. ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of New Trials in Cases Civil and Criminal by David Graham, Thomas Whitney Waterman (1855)
"II Absence of material witness or testimony. III. ... .The non-attendance of a
material witness, or the absence of a material piece of testimony, ..."
5. A Treatise on the Civil Jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace in the State by Esek Cowen, Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, Sidney Joseph Cowen (1844)
"PROCEEDINGS WHERE JUSTICE IS A material witness. A justice can never be a witness
in his own court: neither can he act upon facts within his own knowledge, ..."
6. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Exchequer and by Robert Philip Tyrwhitt, Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1832)
"... on his application, if in the meantime a material witness, deposed to have
been ready in the former occasion, is CKX forthcoming. Att. Gen. v. ..."
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