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Gravamen

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Gravamen
A Spanish term for encumbrance or burden. It may be used to refer to a lien.


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The gravamen of the plaintiffs' allegations was that the hospital defendants negligently failed to treat the injured plaintiff's hypertension prior to and during the cesarean section with fast-anti hypertensive medications, and that as a result she suffered a stroke during the cesarean section.
43) The rationale behind these decisions was that the gravamen of all such claims is the defendant's alleged failure to adequately warn or disclose risks of using its product.
Presenting my line, "Jesus never called on public authority to enact welfare programs," he mistakes this for the gravamen of my argument and then leaps to accuse me of fundamentalism.
 
 
 
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