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Legally giving up a right you probably didn't read closely enough to understand.
means A document or act by which someone voluntarily gives up a legal right, claim, or privilege.
from From Anglo-Norman French 'weyver,' meaning to abandon or forgo, itself related to Old French 'guever' (to abandon). It shares deep roots with 'waif' — originally a piece of unclaimed property or a stray — since both words trace back to the idea of something deliberately left behind or relinquished. By the time it entered legal English, 'waiver' had narrowed to mean the formal act of giving up a right, which is why signing one still feels like tossing something of yours into the unclaimed pile.
- sports meaning
- a cut player anyone else can claim
- legal trick
- silence can count as waiving a right
- fine print
- signed most before skydiving, rarely before marriage
- irony
- waiving rights usually requires exercising one first