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Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

When the terms “clear, precise, explicit, unequivocal, and indubitable,’’ are used by the courts to define the requisite proof of a fact, it is meaut that the witnesses shall be credible, that the facts are distinctly remembered by them, that details are narrated exactly, and that their statements are true.

Spencer v. Colt, 89 Pa. 314.

PRECLUDI NON (Lat.). In Pleading. A technical allegation contained in a replication which deuies or confesses and avoids the plea. It is usually in the following form: “And the said A B, as to the plea of the said O D, by him secondly above pleaded, says that he, the said A B, by reason of anything by the said C 1> in that plea alleged, ought not to be barred from having and maintaining his aforesaid action thereof against the said C D, because he says that,” etc.

2 Wils. 42; 1 Cliitty, PI. 573; Steph. Pi. 398.