ambiguity
61latent ambiguity — latent am·bi·gu·i·ty / ˌam bə gyü ə tē/ n: an uncertainty which does not appear on the face of a legal instrument (as a contract or will) but which arises from a consideration of extrinsic facts or evidence compare patent ambiguity Merriam… …
62Policy of deliberate ambiguity — A policy of deliberate ambiguity (also known as a policy of strategic ambiguity) is the practice by a country of being intentionally ambiguous on certain aspects of its foreign policy or whether it possesses certain weapons of mass destruction.… …
63latent ambiguity — A defect which does not appear on the face of language used or an instrument being considered. It arises when language is clear and intelligible and suggests but a single meaning, but some extrinsic fact or some extraneous evidence creates a… …
64latent ambiguity — A defect which does not appear on the face of language used or an instrument being considered. It arises when language is clear and intelligible and suggests but a single meaning, but some extrinsic fact or some extraneous evidence creates a… …
65Seven Types of Ambiguity — may refer to the following:*Seven Types of Ambiguity (Empson), a 1930 work of literary criticism by William Empson …
66sexual ambiguity — having bisexual tastes Ambiguity here does not usually imply doubt or uncertainty rather it indicates an excess of Catholicism: ... over stressing his sexual ambiguity, even his deviance with regard to drugs. (Davidson, 1978) …
67latent ambiguity — An ambiguity in a writing which does not appear until the writing is applied to the circumstances. Putnam v Bond, 100 Mass 58, 60. An uncertainty in an instrument which does not appear on the face, but which is shown to exist for the first time… …
68mixed ambiguity — An ambiguity partaking of the nature of both a latent and a patent ambiguity. 30 Am J2d Ev § 1073 …
69latent ambiguity — n. Law uncertainty existing where language employed in an instrument is clear and appears to have but one meaning, yet outside evidence makes it capable of more than one meaning: see PATENT AMBIGUITY …
70patent ambiguity — [pat′ nt, pāt′ nt] n. Law uncertainty existing where language employed in an instrument is capable of more than one meaning: see LATENT AMBIGUITY …
