forensic

(fə-rĕn'sĭk, -zĭk)
adj.

1. Relating to, used in, or appropriate for courts of law or for public discussion or argumentation.
2. Of, relating to, or used in debate or argument; rhetorical.
3. Relating to the use of science or technology in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law: a forensic laboratory.

[From Latin forēnsis, public, of a forum, from forum, forum.]

forensically fo·ren'si·cal·ly adv.

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Pertaining to or connected with courts of law. Thus forensic medicine is medicine in its relation to law. In the Essay, Bk. II. 27, Locke describes ‘person’ as a forensic term, meaning that the point of describing something as a person, or finding that the same person was present on two different occasions, is essentially the attribution of responsibility. Thus if an octogenarian is found to be the same person as the twenty-year-old prison guard of sixty years ago, then he can be held responsible for the crimes of the latter; otherwise not.

This entry contains information applicable to United States law only.

Belonging to courts of justice.

Pertaining to, or applied in legal proceedings in courts of law.

adj

Pertaining to the law or to legal proceedings.

For a list of words related to forensic, see:

• Reason and Rationale - forensic: (adj) pertaining to argumentation

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - retslig, juridisk, retsvidenskabelig
n. - diskussionsøvelse

Nederlands (Dutch)
forensisch, gerechtelijk, betogend, passend voor een publieke discussie, betreffende wetenschap voor gerechtelijke doeleinden, betoog, welsprekendheid

Français (French)
adj. - médico-légal, légale (la médecine), (éloquence) judiciaire, rhétorique
n. - médecine légale, service médico-légal, (US) art de la rhétorique/de la dialectique (npl)

Deutsch (German)
adj. - forensisch, gerichtlich
n. - Gerichts...

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - δικανικός

Italiano (Italian)
forense, medicina legale

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - forense (Jur.)

Русский (Russian)
судебный, судебный аргумент

Español (Spanish)
adj. - forense, del foro
n. - forense, del foro

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - juridisk

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
法院的, 适合于辩论的, 关于法庭的, 辩论术

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 法院的, 適合於辯論的, 關於法庭的
n. - 辯論術

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 법정의, 논쟁의
n. - 웅변술, 토론학

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 法廷の, 弁論の
n. - 討論練習, 弁論術

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) شرعي‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮משמש או קשור בבתי-משפט בייחוד בחקירת פשעים‬
n. - ‮יישום טכניקות ביוכימיות ואחרות בחקירת פשעים‬

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