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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Taxative, adj. [Med. or mod. L. taxativus.] In legal or quasi-legal contexts: Limited in power or scope, not definitive or absolute. b. transf. Of a person: That fails to give a definitive response; circumscribed, limited.1670 M. P. Brown Suppl. Decis. I 622.
Boyes had expressly transferred such a right only, as he himself had from Smith, which was only taxative, and not absolute 1676 M. P. Brown Suppl. Decis. III 67.
Where it allows them to work in such and such work, which fell not naturally … under the subject-matter of their own occupation, the same is so far from being taxative, that it is demonstrative and in their favours, and is an evident ampliation and enlargement of their liberty 1678 Fountainhall Decis. I 82.
For the bond is taxative and provides no more but one year's annualrent of it 1679 Fountainhall Decis. I 39.
The Lords refused a new measuring and decerned him only to pay for them as they stood in his tack, it being taxative and not demonstrative 1681 Lauder Notices Affairs I 341.
Thesse words, ‘consistent with my loyalty,’ ware judged taxative and restrictive, seing his loyalty might be far below the standard of true loyalty 1693 Fountainhall Decis. I 578.
But 6 or 7 carried it, that the Parliament's remit was taxative, and only relating to the annualrents due during the forfeiture and dispossession 1694 M. P. Brown Suppl. Decis. IV 229.
The second [question]. If the four grounds in the Act of Parliament 1690, restoring Presbyterian government, were so taxative that the church judicatories could depose for no otherb. 1674 Justiciary Ct. Rec. II 235.
The King's Advocate in his reply is taxative for not answering the third and fourth articles
