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(A) When a person, in denying wrongdoing, actually admits more wrongdoing than is denied. For example, a person who denies stealing money during the month of June as accused but opens the door to have stolen the money in another month. (B) pleading. Such form of negative expression, in pleading, as may imply or carry within it an affirmative. 2. This is faulty, because the … [Read more...] about NEGATIVE PREGNANT

The Latin sentence, "Miserere mei, Deus," was so called, because the reading of it was made a test for those who claimed benefit of clergy. … [Read more...] about NECK-VERSE

One which is enacted in negative terms, and which so controls the common law, that it has no force in opposition to the statute. … [Read more...] about NEGATIVE STATUTE

See INSANITY. … [Read more...] about NECROPHILISM

Omission; failure to do something that one is bound, to do; carelessness. The term is used in the law of bailment as synonymous with "negligence". But the latter word is the closer translation of the Latin "negligentia." As used in respect to the payment of money, refusal is the failure to pay money when demanded; neglect is the failure to pay money which the party is bound to … [Read more...] about NEGLECT