caveat

n. suspension of proceedings (Law); caution, warning, admonition

Caveat, the third-person singular present subjunctive of the Latin cavere, means "warning" (or more literally, "let him beware"); it can be shorthand for Latin phrases such as: Caveat lector, "let the reader beware"Caveat emptor, "let the buyer beware"Caveat venditor, "let the seller beware"Caveat may also refer to:CAVEAT, a Canadian lobby groupPaulette Caveat about certain First Nations rights to northern CanadaPatent caveat, a legal document filed with the United States Patent OfficeCaveat, an album by Nuclear DeathCaveat (horse), a thoroughbred race horse in the 1983 Kentucky Derby
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Priscilla de Villiers is a Canadian activist. She was the founder and president of CAVEAT, an organization advocating governmental policy on crime.Originally from South Africa, de Villiers is the mother of Nina de Villiers, a McMaster University student who was murdered on August 9, 1991 while jogging in Burlington, Ontario. Her killer had, according to CAVEAT's website, "a long history of violence." This event prompted de Villiers to enter public life and found CAVEAT to lobby government policy to strengthen laws in the hopes of preventing similar incidents.
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Noun
1. a warning against certain acts; "a caveat against unfair practices"
(synonym) caution
(hypernym) warning
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"
(hypernym) notice
(classification) law, jurisprudence

(n.)
Intimation of caution; warning; protest.
  

(n.)
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.
  

(n.)
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.
  

Latin: let him beware. A formal warning. - (read more on Caveat)