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Definition of Rogatory
1. a. Seeking information; authorized to examine witnesses or ascertain facts; as, a rogatory commission.
Definition of Rogatory
1. Adjective. Seeking information or evidence, especially from a foreign court ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rogatory
1. requesting information [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rogatory
Literary usage of Rogatory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annotated Forms of Federal Procedure by Frank Olds Loveland, George Washington Rightmire (1920)
"Title "Letters rogatory;" 1 Greenleaf on Evidence 320. See also, In re Letters
rogatory, 36 Fed. 306, explaining the scope of the statutes above mentioned. ..."
2. Pleading and Practice of the High Court of Chancery by Edmund Robert Daniell, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins, Thomas Emerson Headlam (1865)
"Letters rogatory. — Where the government of a foreign country, in which the
witnesses proposed to be examined reside, refuses to allow the Commissioners to ..."
3. The Practice at Law, in Equity, and in Special Proceedings: In All the by William Wait (1873)
"When letters rogatory should be *pplied far. Where the execution of a commission
in a foreign country is forbidden by its laws the proper course of ..."
4. International Cases: Arbitrations and Incidents Illustrative of by Ellery Cory Stowell, Henry Fraser Munro (1916)
"LETTERS rogatory LETTERS rogatory (1874) IN 1874 a suit was pending in the District
Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York against ..."
5. A Treatise on Federal Practice, Civil and Criminal: Including Practice in by Roger Foster (1920)
"Letters rogatory. When the witnesses whose testimony is desired are in a country
whose ... their testimony can only be taken by means of letters rogatory. ..."
6. A Treatise on Federal Practice, Civil and Criminal: Including Practice in by Roger Foster (1920)
"Letters rogatory. When the witnesses whose testimony is desired are in a country
whose laws do not permit of the execution of a commission issued from a ..."
7. A Treatise on Extradition and Interstate Rendition: With Appendices by John Bassett Moore (1891)
"Letters rogatory. — While not strictly germane to the various questions treated
in this chapter, yet it is proper to advert to the subject of letters ..."
8. Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia by John Bouvier, Francis Rawle (1914)
"10116, will be found a copy of letters rogatory, issued to the courts of Havana,
... Where a commission of letters rogatory to take such testimony upon ..."
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