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Caveat   /kˈeɪviˌæt/   Listen
Caveat

noun
1.
A warning against certain acts.  Synonym: caution.
2.
(law) a formal notice filed with a court or officer to suspend a proceeding until filer is given a hearing.



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"Caveat" Quotes from Famous Books



... said Marchmont; "at any rate, he knows more about them than I do; so I will be off. If you should happen to think of any way," he continued, with a sly smile, "of upsetting that will, just let me know, and I will lose no time in entering a caveat. Good-bye! Don't trouble ...
— The Mystery of 31 New Inn • R. Austin Freeman

... the land is not very material. If it should have failed, you may inform him that I have long since filed a caveat which will cover ...
— Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete • Matthew L. Davis

... collected works of George Peele (Vol. I., page 111), although he declined to pledge himself to its authenticity. The latest historian of Dulwich College[40] has admitted it to his text with too mildly worded a caveat. Often, too, has "G. Peel" emerged more recently from a long-forgotten book or periodical to darken the page of a modern popular magazine. I have met him unabashed during the present century in two literary periodicals of repute—in the Academy (of London), in ...
— Shakespeare and the Modern Stage - with Other Essays • Sir Sidney Lee

... through humble avenue of these my lips—list, list, O list, rebellious people, and mark me well. For inasmuch as I, Prior of Holy Cross within Pentavalon City, do voice unto ye, one and all, each and every, the most sacred charge of Holy Church, her strict command or enactment, mandate or caveat, her holy decree, senatus consultum, her writ, edict, precept or decretal, namely and to wit: That ye shall one and all, each and every, return to your rightful allegiance, bowing humbly, each and every, to the will of your lawful lord the Duke (whom ...
— Beltane The Smith • Jeffery Farnol



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