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oversimplify

to simplify excessively so as to distort or misrepresent of facts assertions or communications as Dont oversimplify the rules

oversimplified

simplified excessively so as to distort or misrepresent of facts assertions or communications Contrasted with overcomplicated

Novelist

An innovator an asserter of novelty

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Contributory negligence

may have been one of the causes conducting to the plaintiff's injury. But at the same time he asserts that the plaintiff was himself negligent, and that it was this negligence on the part of the plaintiff,

Facts in issue

itself or in connection with other facts, existence, non-existence, nature or extent of any right, liability, or disability, asserted or denied in any suit or proceeding, necessarily follows (Evidence Act, 1872, s. 3).

Corsned bread

with solemn oaths, curses, and excrations, that it might prove poison, or their last morsel, if what they asserted , or denied, were not true. 4 Bl. Com. 345, 414; and see Norton's City of London, 34d

Lackey claim

Lackey claim, means a prisoner's assertion that incarceration or death now a protracted period is cruel and unusual punishment, Lackey v. Texas, 514 US

Negative

Denying implying containing or asserting denial negation or refusal returning the answer no to an inquiry or request refusing assent as a negative

To enforce any right or supposed right

unlawful assembly and that the crime was committed in prosecution of the common object of the assembly. The assertion of a right of private defence within the limits prescribed by law cannot fall within the expression 'to

Right of privacy

privacy. Perhaps, the only suggestion that can be offered as unifying principle underlying the concept has been the assertion that a claimed right must be a fundamental right implicit in the concept of ordered liberty, Govind v.

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