instrumentary

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instrumentary (comparative more instrumentary, superlative most instrumentary)

(archaic) instrumental
(law, Scotland) Pertaining to a legal instrument.
- 1832, The Institutions of the Law of Scotland, page 23:
  The nearest relations of a party by whom a deed is granted, or in whose favour it is conceived, are good instrumentary witnesses; and although it has been generally laid down by the text writers, that women cannot be instrumentary witness, it is extremely doubtful how far this is correct.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “instrumentary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)