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Antecedent definition

Antecedent means a preceding circumstance, event, object or phenomenon which may trigger a particular behavior or chain of behaviors.
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Antecedent literally means prior or preceding in point of time, but the words “antecedent debt” as used in Hindu Law implies two things, (a) antecedent in time, and (b) antecedent in fact in nature, that is to say, the debt must be truly independent of and not part of the transaction impeached. Lord Dunedin defined the antecedent debt as “antecedent in fact as well as in time”. Thus, two conditions are necessary—
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Antecedent literally means prior or preceding in point of time, but the words “antecedent debt” as used in Hindu Law implies two things, (a) antecedent in time, and (b) antecedent in fact in
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Examples of Antecedent in a sentence

  • After the delivery of the Liability Report, unless an Agent’s Withdrawal Notice has been given, the Authority will, promptly upon becoming aware of them, notify the Agent in writing of any additional Material Antecedent Liabilities arising on or after the date of delivery of the Termination Notice or Indicative Notice, as the case may be, and prior to the end of the Termination Notice Period or the Indicative Notice Period, as the case may be.

  • Antecedent conditions shall be average wet season elevations for water table or other water surfaces.

  • Xxxx acknowledges that in offering the Company's stock no person will be authorized to give any information or to make any representation not contained in the offering prospectus and related offering materials filed as part of a registration statement to be declared effective in connection with the offering.

  • Antecedent moisture condition (AMC) refers to the amount of moisture and storage in the soil profile prior to a storm event.

  • Comparison of Dry and Wet Season Antecedent Dry Periods at the Regional Monitoring Sites.

  • Second, Defendants’ arguments to recover interest or “lost time value resulting from [the] fraud” (Objections at 75), has already been rejected by the District Court and the Second Circuit.In the Antecedent Debt Decision, the District Court ruled that net winners were not entitled to interest payments.

  • See Antecedent Debt Decision, 499 B.R. at 419-21; supra at Section VI.

  • Keywords: pro-drop languages, null subject languages, pronominal subjects, null subject pronouns, overt subject pronouns, Position of Antecedent Strategy, inter-sentential context, anaphora, monolinguals, Croatian1.

  • The crux of Defendants’ argument concerning this issue is that the Bankruptcy Court followed the express mandate of the Antecedent Debt Decision instead of following the Section 546(e) Decision.

  • Order (Relates To Consolidated Proceedings on Antecedent Debt Issues) (the “Antecedent Debt Order”), Ex. A to the Trustee’s Reply Memorandum Of Law In Further Support of His Motion For Summary Judgment, ECF No. 92-1.


More Definitions of Antecedent

Antecedent literally means what comes before, but sometimes this relationship gets flipped. And when a pronoun comes before its antecedent, we're less likely to notice an agreement error.
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Related to Antecedent

  • Father means the male, biological parent of a child.

  • Mother means the mother or expectant mother of the child.

  • Descendant of an individual means all of the individual's descendants of all generations, with the relationship of parent and child at each generation being determined by the definition of child and parent contained in this section.

  • Stepparent means a person who is not the parent of the dependent child, but is the legal spouse of the dependent child’s parent by ceremonial or common-law marriage.

  • Alleged father means a man who alleges himself to be, or is alleged to be, the genetic father or a possible genetic father of a child, but whose paternity has not been determined. The term does not include:

  • Decedent means a deceased individual.

  • Sibling means each of two (2) or more children having a parent in common by blood, adoption, marriage, or foster care.

  • Stepchild means a child of the surviving, deceased, or former spouse of the testator or of the donor of a power of appointment, who is not the testator's or donor's child.

  • Grandparent means the parent of an Employee’s Parent.

  • Assignee as defined in Section 10.6(b).

  • Siblings means brothers or sisters. They are defined as children with at least one natural or adoptive parent in common, living at the same or a different address. Children living permanently in the same household at the same address would also be counted as siblings, regardless of their actual relationship to each other. To qualify as a sibling a child must be on the roll of the school in question at the date of application, allocation and admission.

  • Grandchild means a child of the employee’s child.

  • Nonresident decedent means a decedent who was domiciled in another jurisdiction at the time of his or her death.

  • Child means a child of the employee under the age of one year except for adoption of a child where ‘child’ means a person under the age of five years who is placed with the employee for the purposes of adoption, other than a child or step-child of the employee or of the parent of the employee or a child who has previously lived continuously with the employee for a period of six month or more.

  • Birth mother means the biological mother of a child.

  • Spouse means, an individual who,

  • Son or daughter means a biological, adopted, or foster child, a stepchild, a legal ward, or a child of a person standing in loco parentis, who is under 18 years of age, or is 18 years of age or older and incapable of self-care because of a mental or physical disability.

  • Assignor as defined in Section 10.6(c).

  • Adult family home means a home licensed under chapter 70.128

  • Putative father means a man who is alleged to be or who claims to be the biological father of a child born to a woman to whom the man is not married at the time of the birth of the child.

  • Adoptive home means the place of residence of any natural person in which a child resides as a

  • Family Member means spouse, father, mother, child, father-in-law, mother-in-law, daughter-in-law or son-in-law.

  • widow means the surviving dependent widow of an employee who was wholly or partially dependent upon the employee's earnings at the time of the employee's death;

  • Receiver means a receiver or receiver and manager or administrative receiver of the whole or any part of the Charged Property.

  • Child or Children means a child or children unmarried

  • Immediate precursor means a substance which the Board of Pharmacy has found to be and by regulation designates as being the principal compound commonly used or produced primarily for use, and which is an immediate chemical intermediary used or likely to be used in the manufacture of a controlled substance, the control of which is necessary to prevent, curtail, or limit manufacture.

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