Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

latent ambiguity

an ambiguity that does not readily appear in the language of a document, but instead arises from a collateral matter when the document's terms are applied or executed <the contract contained a latent ambiguity because the shipping terms stated that the goods would arrive on the ship peerless, but two ships have that name>. -also termed extrinsic ambiguity; equivocation; ambiguitas lateens