dolose

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adjective

Deceitful, with hidden malice.

OriginLatin dolosus →
Scrabble 7
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Meanings

adjective
  1. historicalrarelawDeceitful, with hidden malice.

    Several texts tell us, however, that when the owner was a minor, there is a remedy against the dolose slave.

    1908, William Warwick Buckland, The Roman Law of Slavery: The Condition of the Slave, page 692
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    That having been obtained, everything should be restored to the former position, and the dolose party be condemned.

    1854, Patrick Mac Chombaich de Colquhoun, A Summary of the Roman Civil Law

    A dolose act was an act committed with a view to causing damage. […] a dolose act will by construction always be culpable; on the other hand, a culpable act might either be dolose, if the occurrence of the harm was intended, or not, if it was not.

    2009, Eric Descheemaeker, The Division of Wrongs: A Historical Comparative Study, →ISBN, page 72

Origin

  1. Latindolosus
  2. Englishdolose

Borrowed from Latin dolosus; compare dolus.

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APA

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Chicago

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