testimonial
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Case Law, Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910), Abbott (1879)
Definitions from Case Law
From 570 U.S. 178 - Salinas v. Texas · 2013Most cited · 34 citing opinions
responses to questions that require a suspect to communicate an express or implied assertion of fact or belief).
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A certificate under the hands of a justice of the peace testifying the place and time when and where a soldier or mariner landed, and the place of his dwelling and birth, whither he is to pass. Cowell; 3 Inst. 85. The document holds a kind of doubtful position midway bptween a certificate and a permit, or pass. Brown.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Besides its ordinary meaning of a written recommendation to character, testimonial has a special meaning, under Stat. 39 Eliz. ch. 17, § 3, passed in 1597, under which it signified a certificate under the hand of a justice of the peace, testifying the place and time when and where a soldier or mariner landed, and the place of liis dwelling or birth, unto which he was to pass, and a convenient time limited for his passage. Every idle and wandering soldier or mariner not having sucli a testimonial, or wilfully exceeding for above fourteen days the time limited thereby, or forging or counterfeiting such testimonial, was to suffer death as a felon, without benefit of clergy. This act was repealed, in 1812, by Stat. 52 Geo. III. ch. 31. Mozley #■ W.