Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A repudiation or denial of responsibility or connection.
- noun Law A declining of responsibility or liability for something.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person who disclaims, disowns, or renounces.
- noun The act of disclaiming; denial of pretensions or claims.
- noun In law: Of a trust or estate: a refusal to accept; a renunciation, as by one named executor in a will.
- noun A plea in equity, or an answer under the code practice, by a defendant, renouncing all claim upon or interest in the subject of the demand made by the plaintiff, and thus barring the action as against him.
- noun An express or implied denial by a tenant that he holds an estate of his lord; a denial of tenure, by plea or otherwise.
- noun An instrument executed by a patentee abandoning a part of his claim of invention. By this means a patent may be saved which otherwise would be void because too comprehensive.
- noun In heraldry: A proclamation or announcement made by English heralds, during their regular visitations, of such persons as were found claiming or using armorial bearings to which they had no right. The record of such a proclamation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who disclaims, disowns, or renounces.
- noun (Law) A denial, disavowal, or renunciation, as of a title, claim, interest, estate, or trust; relinquishment or waiver of an interest or estate.
- noun A public disavowal, as of pretensions, claims, opinions, and the like.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who disclaims, disowns, or renounces.
- noun A public disavowal, as of pretensions, claims, opinions, and the like.
- noun law A denial, disavowal, or renunciation, as of a title, claim, interest, estate, or trust; relinquishment or waiver of an interest or estate.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun denial of any connection with or knowledge of
- noun (law) a voluntary repudiation of a person's legal claim to something
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Posting nutty stuff without a disclaimer is a de facto endorsement.
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May 27, 2010, 1: 51 pm anomdebus says: lgm: Posting nutty stuff without a disclaimer is a de facto endorsement.
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Posting nutty stuff without a disclaimer is a de facto endorsement.
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In addition they must carry a label disclaimer that statements have not been evaluated by the FDA.
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In addition they must carry a label disclaimer that statements have not been evaluated by the FDA.
Government Watchdog looks at safety and marketing of supplements 2010
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This disclaimer is here because, unfortunately, often anything with the word "soy" in it seems more commonly connected with "healthful" than "delectable," and I don't want to scare anyone off.
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It turns out the disclaimer is completely false, but why even have it in the first place?
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This disclaimer is in compliance with the new FCC code for product transparency.
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People from outside the church are welcome to RSVP and attend but keep in mind this disclaimer from the creators of Living the Questions, the folks who also created the “Eclipsing Empire: Paul, Rome and the Kingdom of God” curriculum:
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It turns out the disclaimer is completely false, but why even have it in the first place?
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As the FTC’s comment letter states, the proposed rule seeks to promote innovation and competition by preventing practices that can facilitate the creation of overlapping patent rights known as patent thickets, which can block or delay competition. The Commission’s latest comment to the USPTO is part of the FTC’s broader efforts to address patent abuse that can threaten competition, including practices that can delay or prevent less expensive prescription drugs from entering the market.
FTC Submits Comment Supporting Proposed USPTO Terminal Disclaimer Rule Henry Liu, Director of the Bureau of Competition 2024
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The FTC’s comment focuses on the USPTO’s proposed rule involving the use of a terminal disclaimer, which is a binding stipulation by a patent applicant that the patent’s term will not extend beyond the duration of an existing duplicative patent. They are used to overcome USPTO patent claim rejections for claims in a patent application that are found to be essentially the same as those in a prior patent, which is referred to as nonstatutory double patenting
FTC Submits Comment Supporting Proposed USPTO Terminal Disclaimer Rule Henry Liu, Director of the Bureau of Competition 2024
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