Difference between revisions of "Caveat"
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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_98436" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_98436" /> == | ||
<p> '''(1):''' (n.) | <p> '''(1):''' (n.) A description of some invention, designed to be patented, lodged in the patent office before the patent right is applied for, and operating as a bar to the issue of letters patent to any other person, respecting the same invention. </p> <p> '''(2):''' (n.) Intimation of caution; warning; protest. </p> <p> '''(3):''' (n.) A notice given by an interested party to some officer not to do a certain act until the party is heard in opposition; as, a caveat entered in a probate court to stop the proving of a will or the taking out of letters of administration, etc. </p> | ||
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_31088" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_31088" /> == | ||
Latest revision as of 08:43, 15 October 2021
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (n.) A description of some invention, designed to be patented, lodged in the patent office before the patent right is applied for, and operating as a bar to the issue of letters patent to any other person, respecting the same invention.
(2): (n.) Intimation of caution; warning; protest.
(3): (n.) A notice given by an interested party to some officer not to do a certain act until the party is heard in opposition; as, a caveat entered in a probate court to stop the proving of a will or the taking out of letters of administration, etc.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
in English ecclesiastical law, is a caution entered in the spiritual courts to stop probates, licenses, administrations, etc., from being granted without the knowledge of the party that enters it.
