Misunderstanding - Law Dictionary Search Results
Misunderstander
One who misunderstands
Misunderstanding
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Misunderstand
To misconceive to mistake to miscomprehend to take in a wrong sense
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Misattend
To misunderstand to disregard
mistake
a criminal defense that attempts to eliminate culpability on the ground that the defendant operated from an unintentional misunderstanding of fact rather than from a criminal purpose mistake of law : a mistake involving the misunderstanding or
Explanation
of Common-wealth Wilding and Philip Laundy, p. 560. Is a mutual defining of terms to clear up a misunderstanding or settle a dispute, Webster American Dictionary, p. 408. In a Parliament, a statement made by a member
Ignoratio elenchi
overlooking of the adversary's counterposition in an argument. Means ignorance of the conclusion to be proved. An advocate's misunderstanding of an opponent's position, manifested by an argument that fails to address the opponent's point; the overlooking of
Plebiscite or Plebiscitum
the intervention of the senate; more particularly applied to the law which the people made, when upon some misunderstanding with the senate they retired to the Aventine mount.
Misapprehension
A mistaking or mistake wrong apprehension of ones meaning of a fact misconception misunderstanding
agency
belief in an agent's authority to act on the principal's behalf. If the principal could have corrected the misunderstanding but failed to do so, he or she is estopped from denying the existence of the agency and
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