Legal Definition and Related Resources of Clear

Easily understood; plain. Free of limitation , qualification or encumbrance . To exonerate ; to acquit.

A trade is carried out by the seller delivering securities and the buyer delivering funds in proper form. A trade that does not clear is said to fail.

(Apparent), adjective

• blunt
• clarified
• clearcut
• demonstrative
• direct
• distinct
• downright
• emphatic
• évident
• evident
• exact
• explicit
• express
• expressive
• frank
• glaring
• graphic
• identifiable
• in bold relief
• in evidence
• in strong relief
• intelligible
• limpid
• manifest
• observable
• outspoken
• overt
• patent
• pellucid
• perceivable
• perceptible
• perspicuous
• plain
• prominent
• pronounced
• pure
• salient
• selfevident
• showing
• shown
• straightforward
• striking
• transparent
• unadorned
• unambiguous
• unblurred
• unclouded
• uncovered
• understood
• undisguised
• unequivocal
• unevasive
• unmistakable
• visible
• vivid
• welldefined
• wellmarked
• wellseen Associated Concepts: clear and convincing danger
• clear and present danger
• clearcut question of law
• clear meaning
• clear preponderance
• clear proof
• clearly ascertainable
• last clear chance

(Certain), adjective

• absolute
• actual
• ascertained
• authoritative
• beyond a shadow of a doubt
• beyond all dispute
• categorical
• cogent
• conclusive
• definite
• definitive
• doubtless
• free from doubt
• incontestable
• incontrovertible
• indefeasible
• indisputable
• indubitable
• irrefragable
• irrefutable
• positive
• questionless
• settled without appeal
• sure
• unassailable
• unchallengeable
• unconfutable
• uncontested
• uncontroversial
• undeniable
• undisputed
• undoubted
• unequivocal
• unerring
• unhesitating
• unimpeachable
• unmistakable
• unqualified
• unquestionable
• unquestioned
• unrefutable
• Associated Concepts: clear legal right
• clear right
• clearly erroneous

(Free from criminal charges), adjective

• absolved
• acquitted
• at liberty
• cleared
• condoned
• delivered
• disburdened
• discharged
• disculpated
• dismissed
• exculpated
• excused
• exempted
• exonerated
• forgiven
• freed
• guiltless
• immune
• justified
• manumitted
• nonliable
• not guilty
• pardoned
• purged
• released
• remitted
• reprieved
• spared
• unburdened
• uncensurable
• unchastised
• uncondemned
• unpunished
• vindicated

(Unencumbered), adjective

• disburdened
• disencumbered
• exempt
• free
• free from burden
• free from encumbrance
• free from hindrance
• free from impediment
• free from limitation
• free from obstruction
• not answerable
• not responsible
• unaccountable
• unbound
• unbridled
• unburdened
• unconstrained
• uncurbed
• unfettered
• unhampered
• unhindered
• unobstructed
• unrestrained
• untrammeled
• Associated Concepts: clear title

verb

• absolve
• acquit
• amnesty
• deliver
• disburden
• discharge
• disembroil
• disencumber
• disentangle
• dismiss
• exculpate
• excuse
• exempt
• exonerate
• explicare
• extricate
• find not guilty
• forgive
• free
• give a reprieve
• give absolution
• grant a reprieve
• grant amnesty
• grant remission
• let go
• let off
• liberate
• pardon
• pronounce not guilty
• prove innocent
• purge
• quash the conviction
• release
• render free
• reprieve
• rescue
• set at large
• set at liberty
• set free
• shrive
• vindicate Associated Concepts: clear and convincing evidence
• clear and convincing standard of proof
• clear and present danger
• clear title
• last clear chance doctrine

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Ambiguity, Bill Of Rights, Blood Relationship, Clear And Convincing, Clear Days, Codicil, Covenant, Exculpate, Express, Free And Clear, Homage Ancestral, Idiopathic, Implied Agency, Knowledge, Last Chance, Last Clear Chance, , Obscure, Obvious, Opinion Evidence, Parol Evidence, Purge.