probative
Speech parts
1. probative - Adjective
2. probative - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Serving for trial or proof; probationary; as, probative judgments; probative evidence.
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evidence should only be excluded if its probative value was outweighed by its prejudicial effect
He, however, told the court that “it is my submission that the prejudicial value of this evidence far outweight any probative values in any criminal prosecution.”
“The surveys relied upon by the minister were in themselves without any probative value and particularly unscientific and crude.”
“This approximates to about 80percent of the results of the said units dumped on the court and on which basis the Election Petition Tribunal and the Appeal Court rightly dismissed them for not having any probative value.”
It definitely had probative value to establish a plan, scheme or design.
So, this Pomykala volume is another curiosity of the history of scholarship, but by no means compelling, and certainly not probative.