negative pregnant

negative pregnant. A denial implying its affirmative opposite by seeming to deny only a qualification of the allegation and not the allegation itself. • An example is the statement, “I didn’t steal the money last Tuesday,” the implication being that the theft might have happened on another day. — Also termed negative pregnant with an affirmative. Cf. AFFIRMATIVE PREGNANT. [Cases: Pleading 126. C.J.S. Pleading § 191.]

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译者Kelly，美国顶尖商学院国际经济法专业，擅长翻译各种与投资基金与基金顾问诉讼相关的法律文件。