| 单词 | to enter a caveat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto enter a caveat a. A process in court (originally in ecclesiastical courts) to suspend proceedings; a notice given by some party to the proper officer not to take a certain step until the party giving the notice has been heard in opposition. Phrase, to enter a caveat or put in a caveat: also figurative see 2b. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > [noun] > a stay or suspension of proceedings > caveat caveat1654 society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > [verb (intransitive)] > stay or suspend proceedings > enter a caveat to enter a caveat1654 1654 T. Gataker Disc. Apol. 45 A Caveat they found entred in the Bishops Office, by a Gentleman, one of the Petti-Bag, who pretended a Title. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Caveat, used among the Proctors, when a person is dead, and a competition ariseth for the Executorship, or Administratorship, the party concerned enters a Caveat, to prevent or admonish others from intermedling. 1669 A. Marvell Let. 18 Sept. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 258 I enterd caveats both at Mr Atturneys and Mr Sollicitors. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 145 A Caveat in Law..is an Intimation given to some Ordinary or Ecclesiastical Judge..notifying to him that he ought to beware how he acts in such or such an Affair. 1805 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. V. 37. 1884 Law Rep.: Probate Div. 9 23 The..defendant, one of the next of kin, entered a caveat. < as lemmas |
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