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• concealment — I noun camouflage, confinement, cover, deceitfulness, disappearance, disguise, disguisement, duplicity, evasion, furtiveness, hiding, incognito, inconspicuousness, invisibility, nonappearance, obfuscation, obscurity, obsuration, privacy,… …   Law dictionary

• Concealment device — Concealment devices or diversion safes are used to hide things for the purpose of secrecy or security. They are made from an ordinary household object such as a book, a soda can, a candle, a can, or something as small as a coin. The idea is that… …   Wikipedia

• Concealment — (also called abscondence or hiding) is obscuring something from view or rendering it inconspicuous, the opposite of exposure. A military term is CCD: camouflage, concealment and deception (looks the same as the surroundings, cannot be seen, looks …   Wikipedia

• Concealment — Con*ceal ment, n. [OF. concelement.] 1. The act of concealing; the state of being concealed. [1913 Webster] But let concealment, like a worm i the bud, Feed on her damask cheek. Shak. [1913 Webster] Some dear cause Will in concealment wrap me up… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• concealment — con‧ceal‧ment [kənˈsiːlmənt] noun [uncountable] 1. LAW the crime of not telling a court about something affecting a legal case, for example when a bankrupt person does not tell a court officer about any money or property they own: • It is a… …   Financial and business terms

• concealment of birth or death — The crime of refusing to disclose the birth or death of a newborn child. Dictionary from West s Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005. concealment of birth or death The crime of refusing to …   Law dictionary

• concealment — early 14c. (late 13c. in Anglo French), from O.Fr. concelement concealment, secrecy, from conceler to hide (see CONCEAL (Cf. conceal)). Originally a term in law; general sense is from c.1600 …   Etymology dictionary

• concealment of pregnancy — in the criminal law of Scotland, the statutory crime of not calling for help during the period leading up to and including childbirth if the child is later missing or dead. Nondisclosure is sufficient. Collins dictionary of law. W. J. Stewart.… …   Law dictionary

• concealment rule — n. The legal doctrine that when a plaintiff is hindered or kept from discovering the existence of a claim by the actions of a defendant, the statute of limitations is tolled until the plaintiff discovers or should have discovered the claim.… …   Law dictionary

• concealment of truth — index indirection (deceitfulness) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

• concealment — [n] hiding, secrecy beard, blind, camouflage, cover, covering, cover up, curtain, disguise, dissimulation, fig leaf*, front, hideaway, hide out, laundromat, mask, obliteration, obscuration, occultation, privacy, red herring*, secretion, smoke… …   New thesaurus