Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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affirmative pregnant
A positive statement that ambiguously implies a negative; a statement that does not explicitly deny a charge, but instead answers an unasked question and thereby implies culpability, as when a person says "i returned your car yesterday" to the charge "you stole my car!" cf. negative pregnant.
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.
regnant
adj. Exercising rule, authority, or influence; reigning <a queen regnant>