Legal Definition and Related Resources of Without Prejudice

Overtures of pacification and any other offers or propositions between litigating parties expressly or impliedly made without prejudice are inadmissible in evidence on grounds of public policy. The phrase without prejudice is used to denote that the person or the party on whose behalf the offer is made is not waiving any of his rights.

A phrase frequently used in connection with admissions, orders, etc. Its general effect is to reserve certain rights which would otherwise be indirectly or impliedly affected. See 20 Wall. (U. S.) 12; 58 Vt. 414.

A phrase used to prevent communications in any negotiations being made known to the court. However, if those negotiations fail to produce agreement Without Prejudice letters, Calderbank offers and the responses to them can subsequently be disclosed to the court in evidence over claims for costs.

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Without Prejudice in Historical Law

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Without Prejudice Legal Definition

A dismissal “without prejudice” allows a new suit to be brought for the same cause.

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Without prejudice in Law Enforcement

Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of without prejudice.

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• without prejudice in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
• without prejudice in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
• A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis

without detriment or damage to a legal right or claim

Meaning of Without Prejudice in the U.S. Legal System

Definition of Without Prejudice published by the National Association for Court Management: A claim or cause dismissed without prejudice may be the subject of a new lawsuit.

Without prejudice in Global Commerce Policy

In this regard, a definition of this issue is as follows: used to signify in negotiations that although one is willing to examine a proposition made by the other side, or that one is prepared to propose a course of action, this is done on the understanding that one ™s options remain open. That is, one declares that although one may be ready to consider something, this should not be seen as having influenced one ™s ultimate decision. See ad referendum agreement and bracketed language.[1]

Without prejudicein the wold Encyclopedia

For an introductory overview on international trade policy, see this entry.

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1. Dictionary of Trade Policy, “Without prejudice” entry (OAS)

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