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Dictum

An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; an apothegm.

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Declaration 76% connected

The act of declaring, or publicly announcing; explicit asserting; undisguised token of a ground or side taken on any subject; proclamation; expositio…

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Judgement 76% connected

the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions

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Judgment 76% connected

The act of judging; the operation of the mind, involving comparison and discrimination, by which a knowledge of the values and relations of thins, wh…

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Opinion 76% connected

That which is opined; a notion or conviction founded on probable evidence; belief stronger than impression, less strong than positive knowledge; sett…

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Directive 76% connected

Having power to direct; tending to direct, guide, or govern; showing the way.

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Judge 74% connected

A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for…

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Judge 74% connected

A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for…

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Pronouncement 92% connected

The act of pronouncing; a declaration; a formal announcement.

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case law noun · 85% connection

a system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws; "common law originated in the unwritten laws of Eng…

Used in the same subject area: Law, General law, Legal theory.
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common law noun · 85% connection

a system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws; "common law originated in the unwritten laws of Eng…

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Jurisprudence noun · 85% connection

the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do

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Law noun · 85% connection

the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do

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Legal philosophy noun · 85% connection

the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do

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Obiter dictum noun · 85% connection

an opinion voiced by a judge on a point of law not directly bearing on the case in question and therefore not binding

Used in the same subject area: Law, General law, Legal theory.
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Precedent noun · 85% connection

a system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws; "common law originated in the unwritten laws of Eng…

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contract law noun · 84% connection

that branch of jurisprudence that studies the rights and obligations of parties entering into contracts

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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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Actual damages noun · 78% connection

(law) compensation for losses that can readily be proven to have occurred and for which the injured party has the right to be compensa…

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Assumed name noun · 78% connection

(law) a name under which a corporation conducts business that is not the legal name of the corporation as shown in its articles of inc…

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Attestant noun · 78% connection

(law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature

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Attestator noun · 78% connection

(law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature

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Cease and desist order noun · 78% connection

(law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity; "injunctions were forme…

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Civil wrong noun · 78% connection

(law) any wrongdoing for which an action for damages may be brought

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Combination in restraint of trade noun · 78% connection

(law) any monopoly or contract or combination or conspiracy intended to restrain commerce (which are illegal according to antitrust la…

Used in the same subject area: Law, General law.
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Comparative negligence noun · 78% connection

(law) negligence allocated between the plaintiff and the defendant with a corresponding reduction in damages paid to the plaintiff

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Adage noun · 78% connection

An old saying, which has obtained credit by long use; a proverb.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: authoritative, statement, dogmatic, saying, apothegm.
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Affirmative adjective · 78% connection

Positive; dogmatic.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: authoritative, statement, dogmatic, saying, apothegm.
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Agnostic adjective · 78% connection

Professing ignorance; involving no dogmatic; pertaining to or involving agnosticism.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: authoritative, statement, dogmatic, saying, apothegm.
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Agnosticism noun · 78% connection

The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necess…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: authoritative, statement, dogmatic, saying, apothegm.
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Amice noun · 78% connection

A square of white linen worn at first on the head, but now about the neck and shoulders, by priests of the Roman Catholic Church while…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: authoritative, statement, dogmatic, saying, apothegm.
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Annueler noun · 78% connection

A priest employed in saying annuals, or anniversary Masses.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: authoritative, statement, dogmatic, saying, apothegm.
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Apophthegm noun · 78% connection

See Apothegm.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: authoritative, statement, dogmatic, saying, apothegm.
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Apothegmatical adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to, or in the manner of, an apothegm; sententious; pithy.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: authoritative, statement, dogmatic, saying, apothegm.
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Authority noun · 78% connection

A precedent; a decision of a court, an official declaration, or an opinion, saying, or statement worthy to be taken as a precedent.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: authoritative, statement, dogmatic, saying, apothegm.
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Brief adjective · 78% connection

An abridgment or concise statement of a client's case, made out for the instruction of counsel in a trial at law. This word is applied…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: authoritative, statement, dogmatic, saying, apothegm.
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Browbeat verb · 78% connection

To depress or bear down with haughty, stern looks, or with arrogant speech and dogmatic assertions; to abash or disconcert by impudent…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: authoritative, statement, dogmatic, saying, apothegm.
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Budget noun · 78% connection

The annual financial statement which the British chancellor of the exchequer makes in the House of Commons. It comprehends a general v…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: authoritative, statement, dogmatic, saying, apothegm.
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