Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
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EXTRINSIC, adj. Sc. Law usage: of a fact or circumstance adduced under oath but not essentially qualifying the matter attested, not inherent to the point immediately at issue, the opposite of Intrinsic, q.v.Sc. 1703 Morison Decisions 13205:
The quality that other sums were due to the deponent without writ is extrinsic, and must be otherwise proved than by his oath. Sc. 1773 Erskine Institute iv. ii. § 12:
The only point referred to oath being the payment, every quality which can of its own nature be separated from that point must, as an extrinsic quality, be proved aliunde by legal evidence. Sc. 1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. 417:
Questions as to extrinsic and intrinsic qualities, in oaths on reference, are frequently attended with great nicety, and must always, to a certain extent, questions of construction. Sc. 1946 A. D. Gibb Legal Terms 34:
When on a reference to his oath a party makes an admission but subject to an explanation, the explanation is extrinsic or intrinsic, according as it is considerable separable or inseparable from what is sworn.
