latent ambiguity
C2CEFR level
80/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
An ambiguity not apparent on the face of a contract's wording but emerging when it is applied to the facts.
The reference to the warehouse concealed a latent ambiguity, since the seller owned two, and extrinsic evidence was admitted to resolve it.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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