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patent ambiguity (pat′'nt, pāt′-)

Law uncertainty existing where language employed in an instrument is capable of more than one meaning

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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