Apparent

1.

Readily seen; evident, self-evident; manifest: as, error apparent upon the face of a record.

See Apparere, De non, etc.; Constat, 1; Error, 3 (3). 3.

Existing in looks or appearance, and, perhaps, of tener not real than true and real; opposed to actual: as, apparent — authority, right or title; also opposed to non-apparent: as, an apparent or non-apparent easement, q, V. An apparent right of possession is defeated by proof of a better, i. e., an actual, right.2 When the owner of property clothes another with the apparent power of disposition a third party who is thereby induced to deal with that other will be protected as against the owner.* A principal is held for the act of his agent clothed with apparent authority.* The holder of mercantile paper is the apparent owner thereof.

Apparent danger

In the law of justifiable homicide such overt, actual demonstration, by conduct and acts, of a design to take life or to do gi-eat personal injury as makes killing apparently necessary.^ Apparent good order. Shipped "in apparent good order," in a bill of lading, does not change the legal effect of the bill. If a loss occurs the carrier is not precluded from showing that it proceeded from a latent defect in the package."