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  • 1negative pregnant — A denial of wrongdoing that implies the opposite by denying only a qualification of the allegation, not the allegation itself. For example, if a defendant who is accused of embezzling a million dollars in 2007 denies the allegation by saying, I… …

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  • 2negative averment — neg·a·tive averment n: a negative statement or allegation (as in a pleading) that constitutes a statement of fact and that must be proved by the party making it a negative averment alleging that the plaintiff did not have the capacity to sue… …

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  • 3negative — A denial; a proposition by which something is denied; a statement in the form of denial. Two negatives do not make a good issue. As to negative covenant negative easement negative servitude negative statute negative testimony, see those titles @… …

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  • 4negative — A denial; a proposition by which something is denied; a statement in the form of denial. Two negatives do not make a good issue. As to negative covenant negative easement negative servitude negative statute negative testimony, see those titles @… …

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  • 5Negative pregnant — A negative pregnant (sometimes called a pregnant denial) refers to a denial which implies its affirmative opposite by seeming to deny only a qualification of the allegation and not the allegation itself. For example, I have never consumed cocaine …

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  • 6negative pregnant — A qualified denial pregnant with the admission of a substantial fact not squarely denied, characteristically in the very words of the allegation denied. 41 Am J1st Pl § 196. Where the plaintiff alleges the defendant to be a corporation organized… …

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  • 7False allegation of child sexual abuse — A false allegation of child sexual abuse is an accusation by a child or young adolescent that a person committed one or more acts of child sexual abuse when in reality there was no perpetration of abuse by the accused person as alleged. Studies… …

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  • 8Bulldogs gang rape allegation — The Bulldogs gang rape allegation was a major scandal which engulfed the Bulldogs, a Sydney based professional rugby league team, in early 2004. A number of unidentified players were accused of gang raping a young woman at a resort in Coffs… …

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  • 9averment — I noun adjuration, adjurement, affirmance, affirmation, announcement, assertion, assertment, assertory oath, asseveration, attest, attestation, avouchment, avowal, confirmation, declaration, formulation, instrument in proof, positive declaration …

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  • 10Commentary on Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid — Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid   Cover showing the author, lef …

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