potestative
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
of a condition in a legal contract: being completely controlled by exactly one of the parties to the contract
Example Sentences
- "The third branch of God's authoritative or potestative power consisteth in the use of all things in his possession, by virtue of his absolute dominion."
- "A potestative condition is that which is in the power of the person in whose favor it is contracted; as, if I engage to give my neighbor a sum of money, in case he cuts down a tree which obstructs my prospect."
- "Articles 1170 and 1174 of the French Civil Code deal with potestative conditions. The former defines as potestative a contractual condition the fulfillment of which is within the power of one of the contracting parties to bring about or hinder. The latter article provides that every obligation contracted on a potestative condition on the part of him who purports to bind himself is null."
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Inflected Forms
more potestative (comparative)
most potestative (superlative)