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KNAVE. A false, dishonest, or deceitful person. This signification of the word has arisen by a long perversion of its original meaning.
2. To call a man a knave has been held to be actionable. 1 Rolle's Ab. 52; 1 Freem. 277., ...
"Words of heat, such as to call a man a rogue or a knave, etc., will bear no action at law unless they are specifically applied as, in such an afair, to a certain person."
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When the current coin of the kingdom became wholly debased by clipping and other knaveries, there ensued both irregularity and inflation of nominal prices, and the producers and consumers of corn found themselves equally ill at ease.
do not relieve an unsuccessful litigant of the obligation under Rule 54(d) to compensate his opponent for reasonable costs. 'If the awarding of costs could be thwarted every time the unsuccessful party is a normal, average party and not a knave, ...
 See also: Law, Will, Were, Action, Owing
  
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