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Reason

or a conclusion principle efficient cause final cause ground of argument

To reason esp deductively to offer reason or argument

Cadit quaestio: there is an end of the argument.

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Obiter dicta, in the course of the argument and decision of a case, not infrequently, many incidental questions

(non-contentious) 1925; a reference to authorities in support of an argument. A reference to a legal precedent or authority, such as

plaint, and is, therefore, one that can be taken in argument though not raised in the written defence, Prabhakar Gerland Walter

Vested in court, it is thus difficult to accept the argument that the power vested in the High Court under sub-s.

from making an effective representation, it does not require much argument to hold that one such vague ground is sufficient to

although passages therefrom may be adopted as part of an argument.

the latter is sometimes either excusable or necessary in an argument or address; the former (tautology) never.

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