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Predicate

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

Black's Law Dictionary

In logic. That which is said concerning the subject in a logical proposition ; as, "The law is the perfection of common sense." "Perfection of common sense," being affirmed concerning the law, (the subject,) is the predicate or thing predicated.

Wharton; Bourland v. Hildreth, 26 Cal. 232.