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notice definition - legal

n

  1. A state of awareness of a fact or thing, as required by law or contract.
  2. A communication seeking to make its recipient aware of a fact or thing, as required by law or contract.
actual notice
Notice personally received by the person for whom it was intended.
constructive notice
Notice deemed to have been received by a party, due to publicly known facts or events of which that party had a duty to be aware.
implied notice
Notice deemed to have been received by a party, due to his or her knowledge of other information that should have led that party to become aware of the matter in question.
inquiry notice
Notice deemed to have been received by a party, due to the partyÂ’s knowledge of other information that would have caused a reasonable person to inquire further.
judicial notice
Notice taken by a court that a fact is so obvious, well-known or commonly accepted that no proof is required to establish that fact; for example, judicial notice may be taken of the fact that many people died during the events of September 11, 2001, without proof being necessary as to the actual death of such persons.
personal notice
Actual notice received directly by the person for whom it was intended.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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