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单词 constructive blasphemy
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constructive blasphemy
b. Hence constructive blasphemy, constructive contempt, constructive injury, constructive notice, constructive possession, constructive treason, constructive trust, etc. constructive total loss (in Marine Insurance): the assumption of the loss of a ship or cargo as total under certain circumstances, as when arrival or recovery seems highly improbable, or the cost of the repairs promises to exceed the value, the owner abandoning to the insurers all claim to the ship and receiving the amount insured.
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a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 526 It was not possible to make it look even like a constructive treason.
1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. 75 The creatures of tyrannical princes had opportunity to create abundance of constructive treasons; that is, to raise, by forced and arbitrary constructions, offences into the crime and punishment of treason, which never were suspected to be such.
1789 C. Durnford & E. H. East Rep. Cases King's Bench III. 466 The necessity of an actual possession by the bankrupt, in contradistinction to a constructive possession by the intervention of an agent.
a1797 H. Walpole Mem. George III (1845) x. 319 It was at most constructive blasphemy.
1848 J. Arnould Law Marine Insurance II. iii. viii. 1052 A constructive total loss in insurance law is that which entitles the assured to claim the whole amount of the insurance.
1859 J. S. Mill On Liberty iv. 147 The merely contingent, or, as it may be called, constructive injury which a person causes to society, by conduct which neither violates any specific duty to the public, nor occasions perceptible hurt to any assignable individual except himself.
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