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Parenthesis

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

Part of a sentence occurring in the middle thereof, and inclosed between marks like ( ), the omission of which part would not injure the grammatical construction of the rest of the sentence.

Wharton; In re Schilling, 53 Fed. 81, 3 G. a A. 440.