Definition: A notice given by an interested party to some officer not
to do a certain act until the party is heard in opposition; as, a
caveat entered in a probate court to stop the proving of a will or the
taking out of letters of administration, etc.
Definition: A description of some invention, designed to be patented,
lodged in the patent office before the patent right is applied for, and
operating as a bar to the issue of letters patent to any other person,
respecting the same invention.
Definition: Intimation of caution; warning; protest.
