Meanings
adjectiveopen-textured (comparative more open-textured, superlative most open-textured)
comparative more open-textured · superlative most open-textured
- human sciencesevading a precise or holistic definition
- lawsubject to constant attempts at ascribing a meaning, due to a legal rule's vagueness or multiple interpretations
Lacking any clear textual or historical definition of its own, the phrase "probable cause" is every bit as open-textured as these other terms of art and is every bit in need of sound analytical and doctrinal exposition.
March 30, 2020, Andrew Manuel Crespo, “Probable Cause Pluralism”, in Yale Law Journal, page 8
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