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Home Dictionary Name: retract Page: 2Recant
To withdraw or repudiate formally and publicly opinions formerly expressed to contradict as a former declaration to take back openly to retract to recall...
Opelet
A bright colored European actinian Anemonia sulcata syn Anthea sulcata so called because it does not retract its tentacles...
Recantation
The act of recanting a declaration that contradicts a former one that which is thus asserted in contradiction retraction...
Jus retractus
Jus retractus, means the right of retraction. (1) The right of certain relatives of one who has sold immovable property to repurchase it. (2) A debtor's right, upon sale of the debt by the creditor, to have a third person redeem it within a year for the price paid by the purchaser, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 868....
Estoppel
Estoppel, a conclusive admission, which cannot be denied. It is of three kinds:-(1) By matter of record, which imports such absolute and incontrovertible verity, that no person against whom it is producible shall be permitted to aver against it. A record concludes the parties thereto, and their privies, whether in blood, in law, or by estate, upon the point adjudged, but not upon any matter collateral or adjudged by inference, A judgment in an action in rem is absolutely binding upon all the world.A conviction on the same facts is no estoppel in a civil action because the parties are not the same, Palace Shipping Co. v. Caine, 1907 AC 386.(2) By deed. No person can be allowed to dispute his own solemn deed, which is therefore conclusive against him, and those claiming under him, even as to the facts recited in it. The general rule is that an indenture estops all who are parties to it, while a deed-poll only estops the party who executesit, since it is his sole language and act, Shep. T...
VerbarSerpula
Any one of numerous species of tubicolous annelids of the genus Serpula and allied genera of the family Serpulidaelig They secrete a calcareous tube which is usually irregularly contorted but is sometimes spirally coiled The worm has a wreath of plumelike and often bright colored gills around its head and usually an operculum to close the aperture of its tube when it retracts...
Retractor
One who or that which retracts...
Retractile
Capable of retraction capable of being drawn back or up as the claws of a cat are retractile...
VerbarRetentor
A muscle which serves to retain an organ or part in place esp when retracted See Illust of Phylactolemata...
climb down
a retraction of a previously held position...
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