Negative Pregnant
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In pleading. A negative implying also an aflirmative.
Cowell.
Such a form of negative expression as may imply or carry within it an affirmative.
Steph. Pl. 351.
As if a man be said to have aliened land in fee, and he says he has not aliened in fee, this is a negative pregnang; for, though it be true that he has not aliened In fee, yet it may be that he has made an estate in tail.
Cowell.