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Low visibility rules

Low visibility rules, these are rules of law which are made inaccessible to the public. Generally these are obscure laws, with far reaching powers and which infringe fundamental rights and those which the state does not wish

Increase of Rent and Mortgage (Restrictions) Acts (English)

statutes which imposed restrictions on increasing the rent and mortgage interest on properties falling within their scope. the obscure and ambiguous drafting of these Acts has given rise to much litigation: see Increase of Rent and Mortgage

Collateral warrants

brother. The whole doctrine of collateral warranty is repugnant to justice; and even its technical grounds are so obscure that the ablest legal writers are not agreed upon the subject, Wright's Tenures, 168; Gilbert's Tenures, 143.

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Civil Law

entitled the Codex Repetiat' Pr'lectionis, containing 200 of Justinian's own laws, and the 50 decisions on the most obscure and debatable points of jurisprudence. The Code was divided into twelve books, each book into titles, and each

Obumbration

Act of darkening or obscuring

Ambiguity

Ambiguity, doubtfulness, double-meaning, obscurity. There are two species of ambiguity--'latent' and 'patent.' Where the words of a document as they stand are

Solve

To explain to resolve to unfold to clear up what is obscure or difficult to be understood to work out to a result or conclusion as to solve a doubt

Shadow

Shade within defined limits obscurity or deprivation of light apparent on a surface and representing the form of the body which intercepts the

Quiz

A riddle or obscure question an enigma a ridiculous hoax

Pseudotetramera

A division of beetles having the fifth tarsal joint minute and obscure so that there appear to be but four joints

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