latent ambiguity

noun Law.

uncertainty that arises when a seemingly clear written instrument is matched against an extrinsic fact, as when a description of something being sold fits two different items.

Origin:
1840–50

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Example sentences

Given our conclusion a latent ambiguity exists, resort to extrinsic evidence is

appropriate.

Parol evidence is also admissible to explain a latent ambiguity.

Courts will find a latent ambiguity where the disputed language, without more,

admits of two different reasonable interpretations.

Latent ambiguity does not appear on the face of the instrument.

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"I always get back to the question, is it really necessary that men should consume so much of their bodily and mental energies in the machinery of civilised life? The world seems to me to do much of its toil for that which is not in any sense bread. Again, does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?"

-William Allingham

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