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man·i·fest 1 /'ma-nə-ˌfest/ adj1: capable of being readily perceived by the senses and esp. by sighta manifest injury2: capable of being easily understood or recognized: clearly evident, obvious, and indisputablevacating an arbitrator's award because of the arbitrator's manifest disregard of the lawman·i·fest·ly advmanifest 2 vt: to make evident or certain by showing or displayingmanifest ing the intent to make a giftman·i·fes·ta·tion /ˌma-nə-fə-'stā-shən, -ˌfe-'stā-/ nmanifest 3 n: a list of passengers or an invoice of cargo for a vehicle (as a ship or plane)
Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam-Webster. 1996.
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apertus, apparent, avowed, bald, bare, beholdable, blatant, clear, clear-cut, conspicuous, crying, crystal clear, defined, discernible, disclosed, distinct, easy to see, evidens, evident, explicit, exposed, express, eye-catching, flagrant, glaring, gross, identifiable, in bold relief, in evidence, in focus, in full view, in sight, in the foreground, in view, indisputable, indubitable, insuppressible, lucid, marked, naked, not concealed, not obscure, notable, noticeable, observable, obvious, open, ostensible, overt, palpable, patent, perceivable, perceptible, perspicuous, perspicuus, plain, prominent, pronounced, public, recognizable, revealed, salient, seeable, showable, standing out, sticking out, striking, tangible, transparent, unclouded, unconcealed, uncontestable, undisguised, unhidden, unmistakable, unquestionable, visible, well-defined, well-marked, well-seen
associated concepts: manifest danger, manifest error, manifest necessity, manifest peril
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air, aperire, attest, bare, be evidence of, bespeak, betoken, bring forth, bring forward, bring into the open, bring out, bring to light, bring to notice, bring to the front, bring to view, certify, dedarare, declare, demonstrate, denote, designate, disclose, discover, display, divulge, evidence, evince, exhibit, explain, expose, expose to view, express, hold up, hold up to view, illuminate, illustrate, impart, indicate, lay bare, lay open, lay out, make clear, make conspicuous, make evident, make known, make obvious, make plain, make visible, mark, open, open up, patefacere, point out, present, proclaim, prove, publish, represent, reveal, set forth, set out, show, signify, speak out, testify, throw open, unconceal, uncover, uncurtain, undrape, unearth, unfold, unmask, unscreen, unshroud, unveil
foreign phrases:
- In rebus manifestis, err at qui auctoritates iegum allegat; quia perspicua vera non sunt probanda. — In clear cases, he mistakes who cites legal authorities, for obvious truths are not to be proved- Manifesta probatione non indigent — Manifest facts do not require proofIII index adduce, apparent (perceptible), apparent (presumptive), appreciable, axiomatic, bare, bear (adduce), bear (yield), bill (invoice), blatant (conspicuous), bodily, cite (state), clear (apparent), coherent (clear), comprehensible, conspicuous, convey (communicate), corroborate, demonstrate (establish), denude, depict, disabuse, discernible, discover, disinter, distinct (clear), divulge, document, elucidate, embody, emerge, establish (show), evidence, evident, evince, exemplify, exhibit, explain, explicit, expose, flagrant, gross (flagrant), illustrate, inventory, lucid, naked (perceptible), obvious, open (in sight), ostensible, overt, palpable, patent, pellucid, perceivable, perceptible, personify, produce (offer to view), prominent, prove, public (known), reveal, scrutable, signify (denote), tangible, unmistakable, unveil, visible (in full view)
Burton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006
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adj.Evident; obvious.n.A document listing the cargo and passengers on a ship or aircraft.
The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008.
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1) Apparent, obvious, or evident.2) A written list or invoice of cargo.Category: Business, LLCs & CorporationsCategory: Small Claims Court & Lawsuits
Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary. Gerald N. Hill, Kathleen Thompson Hill. 2009.
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1) adj., adv. completely obvious or evident.2) n. a written list of goods in a shipment.
Law dictionary. EdwART. 2013.