Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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actual knowledge

1. Direct and clear knowledge, as distinguished from constructive knowledge <the employer, having witnessed the accident, had actual knowledge of the worker's injury>. - Also termed express actual knowledge. 2. Knowledge of such information as would lead a reasonable person to inquire further <under the discovery rule, the limitations period begins to run once the plaintiff has actual knowledge of the injury. - Also termed (in sense 2) implied actual knowledge. "The third issue in section 523(a)(3) is the meaning of 'notice or actual knowledge.' Under the Uniform Commercial Code knowledge means actually knowing something; notice means having received information from which one could infer the existence of the relevant fact. What the adjective 'actual' adds to the idea of 'knowledge' is unclear." David G. Epstein et al., Bankruptcy § 7-27, at 516 (1993).

actual knowledge.

See KNOWLEDGE.

express actual knowledge

See actual knowledge (1).

implied actual knowledge

See actual knowledge (2).