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EXAMINED COPY (law) and naturalist (iou)


EXAMINED COPY (law)


EXAMINED COPY. This phrase is applied to designate a paper which is a copy of a record, public book, or register, and which has been compared with the of a record, public book, or register, and which has been compared with the original. 1 Campb. 469. original. 1 Campb. 469. 2. Such examined copy is admitted in evidence, because of the public 2. Such examined copy is admitted in evidence, because of the public inconvenience which would arise, if such record, public book, or register, inconvenience which would arise, if such record, public book, or register, were removed from place to place, and because any fraud or mistake made in were removed from place to place, and because any fraud or mistake made in the examined copy would be so easily, detected. 1 Greenl. Ev. Sec. 91; 1 the examined copy would be so easily, detected. 1 Greenl. Ev. Sec. 91; 1 Stark. Ev. 189-191. But an answer in chancery, on which the defendant was Stark. Ev. 189-191. But an answer in chancery, on which the defendant was indicted for perjury, or where the original must be produced in order to indicted for perjury, or where the original must be produced in order to identify the party by proof of handwriting, an examined copy would not be identify the party by proof of handwriting, an examined copy would not be evidence. 1 M.

naturalist (iou)



naturalist noun & adjective. L16.
[from NATURAL adjective + -IST, partly after French naturaliste.]
A. noun.
A person who studies natural, as opp. to supernatural or spiritual, things; a person who believes that only natural laws and forces operate in the world; an adherent of philosophical naturalism. L16.
b. A person who follows the light of Nature, as opp. to revelation. E17.
Orig., an expert in or student of natural science; a natural philosopher, a physicist. Now spec. an expert in or student of natural history; a zoologist or botanist (freq. an amateur) concerned with observation rather than experiment. L16.
A person who aims at close adherence to and faithful representation of Nature or reality in Art, literature, etc.; an adherent of artistic naturalism. L18.
b. adjective. Of or pertaining to naturalism or naturalists; naturalistic. M19.