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patent defect noun[ C ] LAWukus a fault in a product, property, or document that could be noticed by careful examination, and is usually noticed before a sale or agreement: The law recognises two types of defects: patent defects, which are obvious ones like broken windows, and latent defects, which are not so immediately obvious. Compare
latent defect
Examples of patent defect patent defect Not unfrequently repeals have been effected soon after their enactment, either because of patent defects, or because the people condemned them. From Project Gutenberg But with these patent defects it ought to be allowed her that the object for which she struggled was not only a perfectly legitimate, but a noble one. From Project Gutenberg These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |