Definizione monolingua

caveat

caveat (third-person singular simple present caveats, present participle caveating, simple past and past participle caveated)

1. To qualify a particular statement with a proviso or caveat
   • 1996, Raymond M. Saunders, Blood Tells: A Thriller^[1], page 217:

     I want to caveat everything I say with the disclaimer that I was working from photos.

2. (law) To lodge a formal notice of interest in land, under a Torrens land-title system
   • 2005, Geoff Moore, Essential Real Property, ISBN 1876905174, page 93:

     It is unclear whether or not a purchaser upon exchange of contracts will be regarded as guilty of postponing conduct if failing to caveat.

3. (law, dated) To issue a notice requesting that proceedings be suspended
   • 1840, T.P. Devereux & W.H. Battle, “Gee v. Gee & Tunstall”, in Reports of cases in equity, argued and determined before the Supreme Court of North Carolina, page 108:

     The answer further alleged that the intestate, in right of his wife, caveated the probate in Virginia of the will of one William Hill, her relation […]

   • 1913 December 6, “Probate Court”, page 5:

     The defendant, father of the testator, had caveated against granting of probate on the ground that the will not duly executed, […]

4. (obsolete) To warn or caution against some event
   • 1663 December 14, John Scott, “Captain John Scott to Under Secry William.”, in Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York^[2], volume 3, published 1853, page 48:

     I beseach you to caveat any addresse being fully heard until some person commissioned from this Countrey be their to confront the sayd Dutch or their complices.

   • 1825, John Jamieson, Supplement to the Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, volume 1, page 210:

     This last expression minds me to caveat the Reader, not to be angry at Helebore because its called Christmas flowre; […]

caveat (plural caveats)

1. a warning
   • 1986 March 9, Roy Blount Jr., ""Able Were They Ere They Saw Cable"", New York Times:

     Two young Harvard M.B.A.s worked up some highly optimistic projections -- with the caveat that these were speculative and should of course be tested.

2. a qualification or exception

   He gave his daughter some hyacinth bulbs with the caveat that she plant them in the shade.

3. (law) a notice requesting a postponement of a court proceeding
4. (law) a formal notice of interest in land, under a Torrens land-title system

Definizione dizionario caveat

ammonimento

avviso

esortazione

preservamento

raccomandazione

Altri significati:

a warning

(law) a formal notice of interest in land, under a Torrens land-title system

a qualification or exception

(law) a notice requesting a postponement of a court proceeding

(law) To lodge a formal notice of interest in land, under a Torrens land-title system

(obsolete) To warn or caution against some event

(law, dated) To issue a notice requesting that proceedings be suspended

a notice requesting a postponement of a court proceedings

a qualification or exemption

To qualify a particular statement with a proviso or caveat