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AMPLIATION, civil law. A deferring of judgment until the cause is further examined. In this case, the judges pronounced the word amplius, or by writing the letters N.L. for non liquet, signifying that the cause was not clear. In practice, it is usual in the courts when time is taken to form a judgment, to enter a curia advisare vult; cur. adv. vult. (q.v.)

AMPLIATION, French law. Signifies the giving a duplicate of an acquittance or other instrument, in order that it may be produced in different places. The copies which notaries make out of acts passed before them, and which are delivered to the parties, are also called ampliations. Dict. de Jur. h.t.



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2, "whatever be their origin or logical form, there is a distinction in judgements as to their content, according to which they are merely explicative, adding nothing to the content of the cognition, or ampliative, increasing the given cognition: the former may be called analytic, the latter synthetic, judgement.
 
 
 
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