Immaterial
Defined in 6 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Anderson (1889)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
Not material; not essential or important.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Not material, essential or necessary; not important or pertinent; not decisive.
—Immaterial averment, An averment ni-leging with needless particularity or unnecessary circumstances what is material and necessary, and which might properly have been stated more generally, and without such circumstances and particulars; or, in other words, a statement of unnecessary particulars in connection with and as descriptive of what is material. Gonid, PL c. 3, § 188; Pharr v. Bachelor, 3 Ala. 245; Green v. Palmer, 15 Cal. 416, 76 Am. Dec. 492; Dunlap v. Kelly, 105 Mo. App. 1, 78 S. W. 664.
— Immaterial issue. In pleading. An issue taken on an immaterial point; that is, a point not proper to decide the action. Steph. Pi. 99, 130 ; 2 Tidd, Pr. 921.
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
Not essential; not formally proper. Immaterial issue: an issue taken on an immaterial point, i. e. a point not proper to decide the action.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
Not material, essential, or necessary; not important or pertinent; not decisive.
A Dictionary of Law
William C. Anderson · 1889
See Material.