Boast - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: boastBoastful
Given to or full of boasting inclined to boast vaunting vainglorious self praising...
Boastingly
Boastfully with boasting...
Boast
To vaunt ones self to brag to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of ones self or of things belonging to ones self as to boast of ones exploits courage descent wealth...
Brag
To talk about ones self or things pertaining to ones self in a manner intended to excite admiration envy or wonder to talk boastfully to boast often followed by of as to brag of ones exploits courage or money or of the great things one intends to do...
Bravado
Boastful and threatening behavior a boastful menace...
Gasconade
A boast or boasting a vaunt a bravado a bragging braggodocio...
Jactitation
Jactitation [fr. jactito, Lat., to boast], a false pretension to marriage, Canon Law.The suit of actitation of marriage (jactitationis matri-monii causa), though a rare proceeding, may still be brought in the Divorce Court by the express terms of the (English) Matrimonial Causes Act,1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 85), s. 6 (replaced by (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 21), when a person falsely boasts that he or she is married to another whereby a reputation of their marriage may ensue. The party injured sues for the purpose of having perpetual silence enjoined upon the unjustifiable boaster. See Thompson v. Rourke, 1893 P. 70....
Jactitation of marriage
Jactitation of marriage, means (1) False and action-able boasting or claiming that one is married to another (2) An action against a person who falsely boasts of being married to the complaint, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 838....
Blague
Mendacious boasting falsehood humbug...
Blattering
Senseless babble or boasting...
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