INNOCENT PARTY

Definition: INNOCENT PARTY

INNOCENT PARTY

1. (Law),a party who has not notice of a fact tainting a litigated transaction with illegality. Syn: Harmless; innoxious; innoffensive; guiltless; spotless; immaculate; pure; unblamable; blameless; faultless; guileless; upright.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Modern Usage: INNOCENT PARTY

Historic Usage: INNOCENT PARTY

Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	But when the actual force is over, the state of war ceases between those that are in society, and are equally on both sides subjected to the fair determination of the law; because then there lies open the remedy of appeal for the past injury, and to prevent future harm: but where no such appeal is, as in the state of nature, for want of positive laws, and judges with authority to appeal to, the state of war once begun, continues, with a right to the innocent party to destroy the other whenever he can, until the aggressor offers peace, and desires reconciliation on such terms as may repair any wrongs he has already done, and secure the innocent for the future; nay, where an appeal to the law, and constituted judges, lies open, but the remedy is denied by a manifest perverting of justice, and a barefaced wresting of the laws to protect or indemnify the violence or injuries of some men, or party of men, there it is hard to imagine any thing but a state of war: for wherever violence is used, and injury done, though by hands appointed to administer justice, it is still violence and injury, however coloured with the name, pretences, or forms of law, the end whereof being to protect and redress the innocent, by an unbiassed application of it, to all who are under it; wherever that is not bona fide done, war is made upon the sufferers, who having no appeal on earth to right them, they are left to the only remedy in such cases, an appeal to heaven. (Second Treatise of Government)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Anagrams: INNOCENT PARTY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-n-n-n-o-p-r-t-t-y"
	-3 letters: encryption, pentatonic.
	-4 letters: ancientry, carnotite, certainty, container, continent, crenation, crepitant, nonentity, panettoni, paternity.
	-5 letters: anointer, anoretic, antiporn, antitype, apocrine, apyretic, atrocity, atropine, attorney, cannonry, caponier, caryotin, citatory, contrite, coparent, cotenant, creation, enactory, entropic, inceptor, innocent, interact, intonate, intranet, nonentry, nonparty, nonprint, operatic, patentor, pittance, portance, procaine, protatic, pyronine, reaction, reanoint, taconite, tenacity, tenantry.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-n-n-n-o-p-r-t-t-y"
	+5 letters: hyperconcentration.
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