Anticipation

Defined in 4 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Anderson (1889)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

The premature doing of an act.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

The act of doing or taking a thing before its proper time. In conveyancing, anticipation is the act of assigning, charging, or otherwise dealing with income before it becomes dne. In patent law, a person Is said to have been anticipated when he patents a contrivance already known within the limits of the country granting the patent. Topliff v. Topliff, 145 U. S. 156, 12 Sup. Ct. 825, 36 In Ed. 658; Detroit, etc., Co. v. Renchard (C. Ct) 9 Fed. 298; National Hollow Brake Beam Co. v. Interchangeable Brake Beam Co. (C. C.) 99 Fed. 772.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

The act of doing or taking a thing before its proper time. In conveyancing, anticipation is the act of assigning, charging, or otherwise dealing with income before it becomes due. In patent law, a person is said to have been anticipated when he patents a contrivance already known within the limits of the country granting the patent.

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

! Taking beforehand, or before a time. 1. Use in the present of what is to accrue or to becomes one's own as income or profit; dealing with income before it is due. More specifically, alienation by a married woman, who has a separate estate by gift, of income not yet accrued. 2 Compare Advancement; Trust, 1. 3. Objection to issuing a patent, or to a patent granted, upon the ground that its subject-matter is identical with what is or was already known, whether patented or not. Cases of anticipation are distinguished from cases of patentability or ingenuity, and from cases of new use, of substitution, and of combination. ^ See Patent, 2.