improbation
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
improbation (countable and uncountable, plural improbations)
- disapproval
- (law, Scotland) The act by which falsehood and forgery are proved; an action brought for the purpose of having some instrument declared false or forged.
- 1826, George Joseph Bell, Commentaries on the Law of Scotland and on the principles of Mercantile Jurisprudence:
- the best expedient which Improbation occurred to the lawyers of those days , was afforded by the action of reduction - improbation
References edit
- “improbation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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Noun edit
improbation f (plural improbations)
Further reading edit
- “improbation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.