单词 | qualified oath |
释义 | > as lemmasqualified oath b. Law. Limited or modified; having some qualification or restriction attached; conditional or partial; as qualified acceptance, qualified endorsement, qualified estate, qualified fee, qualified oath, qualified privilege, qualified property, etc. Frequently opposed to absolute. ΚΠ 1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. iv. xlvi. § 5 Qualified oaths, or these which are not so plain and short as that they may be written and signed at the bar. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. 235 Animals, in which there is no property either absolute or qualified. 1774 J. Erskine Institute IV. ii. §13 A defender to whose oath a libel is referred..may protest for a qualified oath. ?1810 Edinb. Encycl. (1830) III. i. 207 In bailment there is a special qualified property transferred from the bailor to the bailee, together with the possession. 1883 S. Amos Rom. Civil Law 236 By what has been called a qualified mandate..a person induced another to repose credit in a third person. 1905 Columbia Law Rev. 5 485 No exception can be taken..to the phrase ‘qualified estate’ to describe the various forms of conditional and determinable estate. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 113/1 Qualified acceptance may be a promise to pay on a contingency occurring, e.g. on the sale of certain goods consigned by the drawer to the acceptor. 1944 Michigan Law Rev. 43 587 Whoever negotiated the document..by qualified endorsement or endorsement, guarantees the capacity of prior parties. 1972 Times 16 Mar. 9/7 The defence was a denial of the words in the statement of claim, a plea of qualified privilege, a plea of absolute privilege, and also a plea of justification. 2006 Independent (Nexis) 22 Mar. 56 The right to life in article 2..was different in nature from the qualified rights..which enabled the state..to justify an interference with the right. < as lemmas |
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