disclaimantn.
/dɪˈskleɪm(ə)nt/, U.S. /dɪˈskleɪm(ə)nt/ Law (originally U.S.).
A person who disclaims something or makes a formal disclaimer (disclaimer n.1 1); spec. one who disclaims a section of a patent (see disclaim v. 3b).
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the mind > language > statement > repudiation or refusal to acknowledge > [noun] > one who
disclaimer1623
disacknowledger1665
repudiator1825
disclaimant1837
disowner1895
1837 Acts 2nd Session 24th Congr. U.S. c. 45 §7 Any such patentee..may make disclaimer of such parts of the thing patented as the disclaimant shall not claim to hold by virtue of the patent or assignment.
1892 Rules of Pract. U.S. Patent Office 52 To which the disclaimant does not choose to claim title.
1964 ABA Jrnl. Feb. 591/2 Not only does the disclaimant never experience a conscious sense of possession or control of the decedent's property, but [etc.].
1972 Code Federal Regulations (U.S.) 104/1 Here state exact interest of the disclaimant and, if he is an assignee, set out the liber and page or reel and frame where the assignment is recorded.
2004 F. J. Antonucci & R. Whitman After Death Tax Planning (ed. 3) viii. 134 A disclaimer is considered to be qualified if the interest passes without any direction on the part of the disclaimant to a person other than the disclaimant.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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