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Counterclaim

A claim made by a person as an offset to a claim made on him.

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Action 76% connected

A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another;…

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Claim 76% connected

To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

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Objection noun · 86% connection

The act of objecting; as, to prevent agreement, or action, by objection.

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Presumption noun · 86% connection

The act of presuming, or believing upon probable evidence; the act of assuming or taking for granted; belief upon incomplete proof.

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Principle noun · 86% connection

Beginning; commencement.

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Rationale adjective · 86% connection

An explanation or exposition of the principles of some opinion, action, hypothesis, phenomenon, or the like; also, the principles them…

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Recusation noun · 86% connection

Refusal.

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Caveat noun · 85% connection

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 ent…

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Interest noun · 85% connection

To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing; as, the subject di…

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Stake verb · 85% connection

A piece of wood, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a support or stay; as, a st…

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Deduction noun · 85% connection

Act or process of deducing or inferring.

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Entailment noun · 85% connection

The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent.

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Illation noun · 85% connection

The act or process of inferring from premises or reasons; perception of the connection between ideas; that which is inferred; inferenc…

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Implication noun · 85% connection

The act of implicating, or the state of being implicated.

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Inference noun · 85% connection

The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.

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Dialectics noun · 85% connection

That branch of logic which teaches the rules and modes of reasoning; the application of logical principles to discursive reasoning; th…

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Analogy noun · 84% connection

A resemblance of relations; an agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances or effects, when the things are otherwise en…

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Corollary noun · 84% connection

That which is given beyond what is actually due, as a garland of flowers in addition to wages; surplus; something added or superfluous.

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Derivation noun · 84% connection

A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.

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Abatement of a nuisance noun · 78% connection

(law) the removal or termination or destruction of something that has been found to be a nuisance

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Abandon verb · 78% connection

To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.

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Assert verb · 78% connection

To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

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Cause of action noun · 78% connection

a claim sufficient to demand judicial attention; the facts that give rise to right of action

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Claim form noun · 78% connection

a form to use when filing a claim

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Contention noun · 78% connection

A violent effort or struggle to obtain, or to resist, something; contest; strife.

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Counter-evidence noun · 78% connection

(philosophy, law, sciences) Evidence which tends to disprove a claim or hypothesis.; "People persevere in asserting all sorts of thing…

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Counterevidence noun · 78% connection

(philosophy, law, sciences) Evidence which tends to disprove a claim or hypothesis.; "People persevere in asserting all sorts of thing…

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Demand verb · 78% connection

To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently o…

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Dilatory plea noun · 78% connection

a plea that delays the action without settling the cause of action; it can challenge the jurisdiction or claim disability of the defen…

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Disclaim verb · 78% connection

To renounce all claim to deny; ownership of, or responsibility for; to disown; to disavow; to reject.

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Hedge noun · 78% connection

A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also an…

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