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Definition of Probative
1. Adjective. Tending to prove a particular proposition or to persuade you of the truth of an allegation. "Evidence should only be excluded if its probative value was outweighed by its prejudicial effect"
Definition of Probative
1. a. Serving for trial or proof; probationary; as, probative judgments; probative evidence.
Definition of Probative
1. Adjective. Tending to prove a particular proposition or to persuade someone of the truth of an allegation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Probative
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Probative
Literary usage of Probative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rationale of Judicial Evidence, Specially Applied to English Practice by Jeremy Bentham (1827)
"SECTION V.—English school—its attempts to express degrees of probative force.
... Such are the degrees of probative force that have been distinguished and ..."
2. Essays in Jurisprudence and Legal History by John William Salmond (1891)
"The quality by virtue of which it has such an effect may be called its probative
force, and evidence may be denned as any fact possessing probative force. ..."
3. Rationale of judicial evidence, specially applied to English practice, from by Jeremy Bentham (1827)
"probative force has been, to a certain degree, greater than it was in the one
first mentioned, deception has not been so frequently the consequence. ..."
4. Digest of the Scottish Law of Evidence by John Kirkpatrick (1882)
"Writings of the first and second class alone are probative in the strict sense
of the word ; those of the third class are treated as probative when their ..."
5. A Treatise on New Trial and Appellate Practice: Presenting and Illustrating by Thomas Carl Spelling (1903)
"Jordan," the court appears to have held that, in such case, the specific findings
of probative facts would control; but that decision cannot be considered ..."
6. The Principles of the Law of Evidence: With Elementary Rules for Conducting by William Mawdesley Best, John Archibald Russell, Appleton Morgan (1882)
"296 probative force of a chain of presumptive proof .... 297 Presumption ........'..
298 Original signification of ........ 299 Legal signification of . ..."
7. The Law of Interstate Commerce and Its Federal Regulation by Frederick Newton Judson (1912)
"Section 7 of the Bankrupt Act providing that the testimony should not be offered,
did not deprive the evidence of probative force when admitted without ..."
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