1 | noun | A warning or caution. |
2 | noun | A qualification or explanation. |
3 | noun | A formal notice filed by an interested party requesting postponement of a court proceeding or other action until the filer can be heard. |
4 | intransitive verb | To submit a caveat. |
5 | intransitive verb | To make a caveat to (a will, for example). |
6 | intransitive verb | To qualify with a warning or clarification. |
7 | noun | In law, a notice filed or noted in a public office to prevent some proceeding being had except after warning to the caveator, or person making the caveat: as, a caveat filed with the probate court against the probate of a will. |
8 | noun | Figuratively, intimation of caution; warning; admonition; hint. |
9 | | To enter a caveat. |
10 | | In fencing, to shift the sword from one side of an adversary's sword to the other. |
11 | noun | A notice given by an interested party to some officer not to do a certain act until the party is heard in opposition |
12 | noun | 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. |
13 | noun | Intimation of caution; warning; protest. |
14 | noun | let the purchaser beware, i. e., let him examine the article he is buying, and act on his own judgment. |
15 | noun | a warning |
16 | noun | a qualification or exception |
17 | noun | a notice requesting a postponement of a court proceeding |
18 | noun | a formal notice of interest in land, under a Torrens land-title system |
19 | verb | To qualify a particular statement with a proviso or caveat |
20 | verb | To lodge a formal notice of interest in land, under a Torrens land-title system |
21 | verb | To issue a notice requesting that proceedings be suspended |
22 | verb | To warn or caution against some event |
23 | noun | (law) a formal notice filed with a court or officer to suspend a proceeding until filer is given a hearing |
24 | noun | a warning against certain acts |