exclusionaryadj.
/ɛkˈskluːʒənəri/ Of or pertaining to exclusion; characterized by exclusion.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being exclusive > [adjective]
exclusive1515
exclusory1585
exclusionary1849
uninclusive1864
exclusivist1960
exclusivistic1961
1817 J. Bentham Plan Parl. Reform p. cliv Note well the persons to whom, in this instance, the exclusionary force is in an immediate way applied.
1849 W. M. Best Treat. Princ. Evid. Introd. §34. 27 Some of these rules are of an exclusionary nature, and reject as legal evidence, facts in themselves entitled to consideration.
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exclusionary rule n. Law (now chiefly U.S.) any of various rules that exclude the admission of certain types of evidence in a court of law; (now esp.) a law that prohibits the use of illegally obtained evidence in a criminal trial.
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society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > [noun] > rule or direction governing > concerning evidence
rule of evidence1645
exclusionary rule1827
Judges' Rules1925
1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. V. ix. v. 328 The case of husband and wife is the only sample which will here be taken, being the only one which is taken in English law for the ground of an exclusionary rule.
1909 Southern Reporter 48 697/1 The statements or reports..are..hearsay or derivative evidence, and therefore subject to that exclusionary rule of evidence.
1938 N.Y. Times 29 June 4/5 I have no fear that the exclusionary rule will handicap the detection or prosecution of crime.
1981 T. Harris Red Dragon (1998) 112 She sat through two hours of ‘The Good-Faith Warrant Exception to the Exclusionary Rule in Search and Seizure’.
2014 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 14 Aug. 14/1 The Court has radically pared back the ‘exclusionary rule’, the principal mechanism for enforcing Fourth Amendment rights.
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