Materiality
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
The property of substantial importance or influence, especially as distinguished from formal requirement. Capability of properly influencing the result of the trial.. The materiality of evidence deflnes the status of the proposition in a case at large, while admissibility deflnes the relation of an evidentiary fact to some proposition. The two problems are wholly distinct, and yet the inaccuracy of our usage tends constantly to confuse them. Wigm. Evid.
See Evidence.