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Equality of opportunity
have no existence except with reference to matters which are common as between individuals, between whom equality is predicated. Equality of opportunity in matters of employment can be predicated only as between persons, who are either seeking
Copula
the corporal consummation of marriage. See PER VERBA DE PRAESENTI, Copula (in logic), the link between subject and predicate contained in the verb.
Syllogism
together prove it, and which are called the premises. There must be three terms, viz., the subject and predicate of the conclusion, and another called the middle term, which must be found in both premises, since it
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Subject
concerning which the affirmation in a proposition is made; the first word in a proposition, Mill's Logic. See PREDICATE. 1. One who owes allegiance to a sovereign and is governed by that sovereign's laws. 2. The matter
Nominativus pendens
deed, etc., down to whereas], though an intelligible and convenient part of the deed, having regard to the predicate 'witnesseth' or 'now this deed witnesseth,' Are of this kind.
Judgment
871. [Income Tax Act, 1922, s. 66(5)] A judgment is an affirmation of a relation between a particular predicate and a particular subject. So, in law, it is the affirmation by the law of the legal consequences
Goodwill
competition. There can be no account in value of the factors producing it. It is also impossible to predicate the moment of its birth. It comes silently into the world, unheralded and unproclaimed and its impact may
Converse
Converse (in logic), the transposition of the subject and predicate in a proposition. The proposition 'X is Y,' converted, becomes 'Y is X.' 'By far the most fertile
major premise
That premise of a syllogism that contains the major term which is the predicate of the conclusion Contrasted to minor premise
complementation
the grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate
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