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Restatement

Restatement : any of several volumes produced by the American Law Institute and authored by legal scholars and experts that set forth statements of major areas of law (as contracts, torts, trusts, and property) and are widely referred to in jurisprudence but are not binding ...


Id perfectum est quod ex omnibus suis partibus constat; et nihil perfectum est dum aliquid restat agendum

Id perfectum est quod ex omnibus suis partibus constat; et nihil perfectum est dum aliquid restat agendum [Lat.], that is perfect which is complete in all its parts; and nothing is perfect whilst anything remains to be done....


breach

breach 1 a : a violation in the performance of or a failure to perform an obligation created by a promise, duty, or law without excuse or justification breach of duty : a breach of a duty esp. by a fiduciary (as an agent or corporate officer) in carrying out the functions of his or her position breach of trust : a breach by a trustee of the terms of a trust (as by stealing from or carelessly mishandling the funds) breach of warranty : a breach by a seller of the terms of a warranty (as by the failure of the goods to conform to the seller's description or by a defect in title) NOTE: A seller may be liable for a breach of warranty even without any negligence or misconduct. b : failure without excuse or justification to fulfill one's obligations under a contract called also breach of contract compare repudiation an·tic·i·pa·to·ry breach : a breach of contract that occurs as a result of a party's anticipatory repudiation of the contract ef·fi·c...


accessorial

accessorial 1 : of or relating to an accessory [ acts] 2 : of lesser importance [the principal has the principal or primary duty and the surety an or a secondary duty "Restatement of Security"] ...


prior restraint

prior restraint : governmental prohibition on expression (esp. by publication) before the expression actually takes place see also Near v. Minnesota and New York Times Co. v. United States in the Important Cases section compare censorship, freedom of speech NOTE: In New York Times Co. v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court restated its position that “any system of prior restraints” bears “a heavy presumption against constitutional validity” and that the government “carries a heavy burden of showing justification for the imposition of such a restraint.” ...


warrant

warrant [Anglo-French warant garant protector, guarantor, authority, authorization, of Germanic origin] 1 : warranty [an implied of fitness] 2 : a commission or document giving authority to do something: as a : an order from one person (as an official) to another to pay public funds to a designated person b : a writ issued esp. by a judicial official (as a magistrate) authorizing an officer (as a sheriff) to perform a specified act required for the administration of justice [a of arrest] [by of commitment] administrative warrant : a warrant (as for an administrative search) issued by a judge upon application of an administrative agency anticipatory search warrant : a search warrant that is issued on the basis of an affidavit showing probable cause that there will be certain evidence at a specific location at a future time called also anticipatory warrant arrest warrant : a warrant issued to a law enforcement officer ordering the officer to arrest and bring the person named i...


demythologization

the restatement of a message as a religious one in rational terms...


mythologization

The construction of a myth the restatement of a message as a myth...


Paraphrase

A restatement of a text passage or work expressing the meaning of the original in another form generally for the sake of its clearer and fuller exposition a setting forth the signification of a text in other and ampler terms a free translation or rendering opposed to metaphrase...


Restate

To state anew...


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