"hold harmless" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "From to hold someone harmless.",
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  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "text": "a hold harmless clause",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, It's All Your Fault!, Silver Lake Pub., page 253",
          "text": "The first is a hold harmless agreement—a legal contract that limits or transfers liabilities between two parties. Like insurance, you usually have to make a hold harmless agreement before a liability occurs.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Walter M. Dunn, Steven P. Latoski, National Cooperative Highway Research Program, Safe and Quick Clearance of Traffic Incidents, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, page 3-",
          "text": "An authority tow law described under Virginia Statute Section 46.2-1212.1, entitled \"Authority to provide for removal and disposition of vehicles and cargos of vehicles involved in accidents,\" contains a hold harmless provision under Part B of the law.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Bryan A. Garner, Garner's Dictionary of Legal Usage, Oxford University Press, page 445",
          "text": "The indemnify language is the \"indemnity clause\" (covering liabilities to third parties) and the hold harmless is the \"exculpatory clause\" (releasing first-party liability—this is, so that the hold harmless phrase releases a wrongdoing indemnitee where indemnify would not have this effect).",
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        "Describing an agreement or contract where one party assumes all liability resulting from it, thus making the agreement \"harmless\" for the other party."
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          "harmless",
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        "(law) Describing an agreement or contract where one party assumes all liability resulting from it, thus making the agreement \"harmless\" for the other party."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "indemnify"
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "save harmless"
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      ],
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        "not-comparable"
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      "topics": [
        "law"
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  "word": "hold harmless"
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  "etymology_text": "From to hold someone harmless.",
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  "pos": "adj",
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      "word": "indemnify"
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        {
          "text": "a hold harmless clause",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, It's All Your Fault!, Silver Lake Pub., page 253",
          "text": "The first is a hold harmless agreement—a legal contract that limits or transfers liabilities between two parties. Like insurance, you usually have to make a hold harmless agreement before a liability occurs.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Walter M. Dunn, Steven P. Latoski, National Cooperative Highway Research Program, Safe and Quick Clearance of Traffic Incidents, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, page 3-",
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          "text": "The indemnify language is the \"indemnity clause\" (covering liabilities to third parties) and the hold harmless is the \"exculpatory clause\" (releasing first-party liability—this is, so that the hold harmless phrase releases a wrongdoing indemnitee where indemnify would not have this effect).",
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        "(law) Describing an agreement or contract where one party assumes all liability resulting from it, thus making the agreement \"harmless\" for the other party."
      ],
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        }
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  "word": "hold harmless"
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