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Suggestio

A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889

A Dictionary of Law

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See Suppeessio.

SXJGGESTIOK". 1.

Indirect introduction; informal statement or representation; indefinite communication; intimation. Opposed, suppression.

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Suggestive.

Leading, indicating the answer desired; as, a suggestive interrogatory.

See Question, 1, Leading. 3.

A more or less formal representation; the communication to a court of a fact essential to the adjustment of the rights of parties to a cause, but not as yet of record nor pleadable. In this sense is " suggestion " of and to " suggest " the death of a party, that his representative may be substituted; to "suggest" diminution of record; to " suggest " freehold as security for costs, or in stay of execution. Compare Surmise.