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harmless 1 : free from harm, liability, or loss often used in the phrase to hold harmless see also hold harmless 2 : lacking capacity or intent to injure harm·less·ly adv harm·less·ness n ...
hold harmless
hold harmless : of, relating to, or being an agreement between parties in which one assumes the potential liability for injury that may arise from a situation and thus relieves the other of liability [a hold harmless agreement] [a hold harmless clause] compare release ...
harmless error
harmless error see error ...
Harmless
Free from harm unhurt as to give bond to save another harmless...
Non damnificatus
Non damnificatus (not injured). This was a plea in an action of debt on an indemnity bond, or bond conditioned 'to keep the plaintiff harmless and indemnified,' etc. It was in the nature of a plea of performance; being used where the defendant meant to allege that the plaintiff had been kept harmless and indemnified, according to the tenor of the condition, Steph. Plead., 7th ed., 300-301. See now PLEADING....
Quietare
Quietare, means to acquit, discharge or hold harmless. This term was used in conveyances, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1261.Quietare, to quit, acquit, discharge, or save harmless....
error
error : an act that through ignorance, deficiency, or accident departs from or fails to achieve what should be done [procedural s] ;esp : a mistake made by a lower court in conducting judicial proceedings or making findings in a case [to compel to conclusion that a manifest has been done "Moses v. Burgin, 445 F.2d 369 (1971)"] often used without an article [had been to give the jury special interrogatories "K. A. Cohen"]; see also assignment of error, clearly erroneous NOTE: Generally a party must object to an error at trial in order to raise it as an issue on appeal. clear error : an error made by a judge in his or her findings of fact which is such that it leaves the reviewing court with the firm and definite conviction that a mistake has been made NOTE: A clear error may or may not warrant reversal. fundamental error : plain error in this entry used esp. in criminal cases harmless error : an error that does not affect a substantial right or change the outcome of a trial a...
release
release re·leased re·leas·ing 1 a : to relieve or free from obligation, liability, or responsibility [the debtor is released from all dischargeable debts] b : to give up (a claim, title, or right) to the benefit of another person : surrender 2 : to set free from confinement [was released on personal recognizance] n 1 a : discharge from an obligation or responsibility that bars a cause of action [did not effect a of the school for any negligence] b : the giving up or renunciation of a right or claim that bars a cause of action [was a of the remainder of the debt] NOTE: A release may in some situations require consideration in order to be valid. A release of one joint obligor sometimes is considered to release all the obligors. 2 : an act or instrument that effects a release [signed a issued by the insurer] called also release of all claims compare hold harmless 3 : the act or instance of freeing esp. from custody ...
Basking shark
One of the largest species of sharks Cetorhinus maximus so called from its habit of basking in the sun the liver shark or bone shark It inhabits the northern seas of Europe and America and grows to a length of more than forty feet It is a harmless species...
bonnet head
small harmless hammerhead shark Sphyrna tiburio of the southern United States and West Indies having a spade shaped head abundant in bays and estuaries...
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