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PREJUDICE (Lat. praejudicium)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 277 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PREJUDICE (Lat. praejudicium)

PREJUDICE (See also:
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Lat. praejudicium) , literally See also:

JUDGMENT

judgment or decision beforehand, which in classical usage meant a precedent, a preceding judgment, also a See also:

SPECIAL

special See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form of judicial examination precedent to a trial, especially in matters See also:

RELATING

relating to status. The transferred sense, of injury or damage inflicted by decisions or judgments disregarding interests affected, does not appear till See also:

POST

post-classical times in Latin. This last use of damage appears in See also:

ENGLISH

English in relation to legal matters, especially in the phrase " without prejudice," i.e. without detriment to rights or claims. When two parties are negotiating for the See also:

settlement of a dispute, statements or admissions made by or on behalf of either, with a stipulation, expressed or implied, that the statements are made " without prejudice " to the party's claims in the dispute, cannot be put in See also:

EVIDENCE (Lat. evidentia, evideri, to appear clearly)

evidence in litigation to See also:

settle the dispute (see EVIDENCE). The See also:

general meaning of the word is that of See also:

OPINION (Lat. opinio, from opinari, to think)

opinion, favourable or hostile, based on prepossessions, and therefore biassed or unreasonable.

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