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Centerboard

A retractable or sliding keel used on sailboats formed of a broad board or slab of wood or metal which

VerbarRetentor

A muscle which serves to retain an organ or part in place esp when retracted See Illust of Phylactolemata

Jus retractus

Jus retractus, means the right of retraction. (1) The right of certain relatives of one who has sold immovable property

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Estoppel

equity which forbids truth being pleaded or representation, on which faith another has acted to his detriment, being retracted, Commis-sioner of Income Tax (Central) v. B.N. Bhttacharjee, (1979) 4 SCC 121: AIR 1979 SC 1725: (1979) 3

Bidder

Bidder, a person who makes an offer at an auction, which he may retract before acceptance, although there may be a condition prohibiting it. See AUCTION.

Abjuration

7th Edn., p. 5. Abjuration [fr. abjuro, Lat.], a forswearing or renouncing by oath. To abjure is to retract, recant or abnegate a position on oath. 'Abjuration of the realm,' in the old law, signified an oath

VerbarSerpula

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

Palinode

An ode recanting or retracting a former one also a repetition of an ode

Recantation

The act of recanting a declaration that contradicts a former one that which is thus asserted in contradiction retraction

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