Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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negative pregnant
A denial implying its affirmative opposite by seeming to deny only a qualification of the allegation and not the allegation itself. ( An example is the statement, "I didn't steal the money last Tuesday," the implication being that the theft might have happened on another day. - Also termed negative pregnant with an afrnaatiue. Cf. AFFIRMATIVE PREGNANT.