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From the verb form {{term|caveat||he may beware of|lang=la}} {{term|caveo|caveō|I beware of|lang=la}}.

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Portuguese: aviso
Spanish: aviso, advertencia
Swedish: varning

Portuguese: qualificação , isenção

Portuguese: notificação

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Caveat \Ca"ve*at\, n. [L. caved let him beware, pres. subj. of
cavere to be on one's guard to, beware.]
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1. (Law) A notice given by an interested party to some
officer not to do a certain act until the party is heard
in opposition; as, a caveat entered in a probate court to
stop the proving of a will or the taking out of letters of
administration, etc. --Bouvier.
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2. (U. S. Patent Laws) A description of some invention,
designed to be patented, lodged in the patent office
before the patent right is applied for, and operating as a
bar to the issue of letters patent to any other person,
respecting the same invention.
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Note: A caveat is operative for one year only, but may be
renewed.
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3. Intimation of caution; warning; protest.
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We think it right to enter our caveat against a
conclusion. --Jeffrey.
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Caveat emptor [L.] (Law), let the purchaser beware, i. e.,
let him examine the article he is buying, and act on his
own judgment.
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WordNet caveat
n 1: a warning against certain acts; "a caveat against unfair
practices" [syn: caution]
2: (law) a formal notice filed with a court or officer to
suspend a proceeding until filer is given a hearing; "a
caveat filed against the probate of a will"

Moby Dictionary
admonishment , admonition , advice , advising , advocacy , alarm ,
bench warrant , briefing , capias , caution , cautioning , consultation ,
council , counsel , death warrant , determent , deterrence ,
deterrent example , direction , example , exhortation , expostulation ,
fieri facias , final notice , final warning , forewarning ,
frightening off , guidance , habere facias possessionem , hint ,
hortation , idea , injunction , instruction , interdict , intimidation ,
lesson , mandamus , mandate , mandatory injunction , mittimus ,
monition , moral , nisi prius , notice , notification , object lesson ,
opinion , parley , precept , process , prohibitory injunction ,
proposal , recommendation , remonstrance , search warrant , suggestion ,
talking out of , thought , threat , tip-off , ultimatum ,
verbum sapienti , warning , warning piece , warrant ,
warrant of arrest , warrant of attorney , writ

CAVEAT, practice. That he beware. Caveat is the name of a notice given by a party having an interest, to some officer, not to do an act, till the party giving the notice shall have been heard; as, a caveat to the register of wills, or judge of probate, not to permit a will to be proved, or not to grant letters of administration, until the party shall have been heard. A caveat is also frequently made to prevent a patent for inventions being issued. 1 Bouv. Inst. 71, 534; 1 Burn's Ecc. Law, 19, 263; Bac. Abr. Executors and Administrators, E 8; 3 Bl. Com. 246; Proctor's Pract. 68; 3 Bin. Rep. 314; 1 Siderf. 371 Poph. 133; Godolph. Orph. Leg. 258; 2 Brownl. 119; 2 Fonbl. Eq. book 4, pt. 2, c. 1, Sec. 3; Ayl. Parer. 145 Nelson's Ab. h.t.; Dane's Ab. c. 223, a. 15, Sec. 2, and a. 8, Sec. 22. See 2 Chit. Pr. 502, note b, for a form.

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