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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

(law) a procedure whereby a party to a suit says that a particular line of questioning or a particular witness or a piece of evidence…

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Presumption noun · 86% connection

(law) an inference of the truth of a fact from other facts proved or admitted or judicially noticed

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Principle noun · 86% connection

(law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature);…

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Rationale noun · 86% connection

(law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature);…

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Recusation noun · 86% connection

(law) an objection grounded on the judge's relationship to one of the parties

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Caveat noun · 85% connection

(law) a formal notice filed with a court or officer to suspend a proceeding until filer is given a hearing; "a caveat filed against th…

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Interest noun · 85% connection

(law) a right or legal share of something; a financial involvement with something; "they have interests all over the world"; "a stake…

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Stake noun · 85% connection

(law) a right or legal share of something; a financial involvement with something; "they have interests all over the world"; "a stake…

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Deduction noun · 85% connection

something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied); "his resignation had political implications"

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Entailment noun · 85% connection

something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied); "his resignation had political implications"

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Illation noun · 85% connection

the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusi…

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Implication noun · 85% connection

something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied); "his resignation had political implications"

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Inference noun · 85% connection

the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusi…

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Dialectics noun · 85% connection

a rationale for dialectical materialism based on change through the conflict of opposing forces

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Analogy noun · 84% connection

an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others

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Corollary noun · 84% connection

(logic) an inference that follows directly from the proof of another proposition

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Derivation noun · 84% connection

a line of reasoning that shows how a conclusion follows logically from accepted propositions

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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 relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, whi…

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Assert verb · 78% connection

To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and lib…

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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 central claim that someone argues is true.

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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 relinquish or deny having a claim; to disavow another's claim; to decline accepting, as an estate, interest, or office.

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Hedge noun · 78% connection

any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices…

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