单词 | decisory |
释义 | decisoryadj. That settles or determines a matter; decisive, determinative. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > proof, demonstration > [adjective] > conclusive, decisive definitivec1386 evident1421 concludent1571 deciding1577 decisive1584 decretal1608 decisory1611 concluding1620 evictive1624 silencing1646 conclusive1649 decretory1674 decretorian1679 decisional1687 critical1753 crucial1830 clinching1873–4 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Decisoire, decisorie, deciding; fit, vsed, or able, to decide controuersies. 1652 J. Notstock tr. J. Andrés Confusion Muhamed's Sect x. 172 Therfore I say, that if the first verse is valid and decisory, the second verse must likewise be valid and decisory. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Decisory..Able to determine or decide. 1796 Compend. Dict. Holy Bible 314/2 Lot, a mutual agreement to determine an uncertain event, no other ways determinable, by an appeal to the providence of God, on casting or throwing something, &c. This is a decisory lot. 1863 Orig. Secession Mag. Nov. 318 We have another illustration of a decisory lot in the filling up of the vacancy in the Apostleship, which had been caused by the death of Judas. 1881 J. Boardman Let. 30 Apr. in Rep. Estate A. Chadwick vii. 166 Decisory as my Report is, there are sure to be a few who cannot be convinced that they are not, sooner or later, to be the happy recipients of a fabulous fortune. 1895 E. Pow Bauder Ruth & Marie xii. 125 She had begun her work without any decisory plan. 1969 R. P. Wolff Ideal of University (1999) 105 In all matters pertaining to student (and faculty) living arrangements, the university community as a whole has the right to exercise collective decisory authority. 1983 Bull. Univ. Coll. London Sept. 1/2 Its role is more consultative than decisory. 2005 E. Laclau in F. Panizza Populism & Mirror of Democracy i. 36 The very fact that the request [for a bus route] takes place shows that the decisory power of the higher instance [sc. the city hall] is not put into question at all. Compounds decisory oath n. Civil Law an oath given by one party in a lawsuit at the request of the other party, affirming the truth of a fact which the first party relies upon but cannot prove (and which the second party cannot disprove), and which is treated as proving the fact in question; also called decisive oath, proof by oath.The decisory oath was abolished in Scotland by the Requirements of Writing (Scotland) Act 1995, and had already disappeared in practice; it is occasionally still used in other Civil law jurisdictions, as in Italy. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > evidence > [noun] > types of oath fore-oatha1000 decisory oath1593 voir dire1676 suppletory oatha1691 oath in supplement1838 1593 R. Cosin Apol. for Sundrie Proc. (rev. ed.) iii. iii. 25 The decisory oath, is either delatum or relatum by the one of the parties, that are in sute together. 1662 E. Lake Memoranda vi. 34 St. Chrysostom alloweth of Decisory Oaths or Wagers of Law, and testifieth that such necessary oaths were in those times imposed to exact mens confessions, and whether they had stollen some certain thing or not. 1796 J. Ebers New & Compl. Dict. German & Eng. Lang. I. 668/1 Eid, Ein gerichtlicher Eid.., a decisory Oath by which a Process or Suit is finished. 1893 Law Mag. & Law Rev. 4th Ser. 14 199 In Scotland, the decisory oath, as well as the oath in supplement, in litem, and of calumny, is still competent, though apparently not often administered. 1903 Amer. Law Reg. 51 385 The parties could not voluntarily take a decisory oath, but only when tendered by the opposite party or required by the judge, and the personality of the party was always taken into account before the entire decision of the question was referred to his single oath. 1990 Irish Law Reform Comm. iii. 24 Civil law jurisdictions..which have retained a form of the ‘party oath’ or ‘decisory oath’, of which France and Italy are typical. 2010 S. Grossi & M. C. Pagni Comm. Ital. Code Civil Procedure 231 The decisory oath is a declaration as to the truth of specific events, given by a party on request of the opposing party..and on the basis of that is conclusive evidence, meaning that the judge and the parties are bound to consider the facts object of the decisory oath as established. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1593 |
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