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obviate definition - legal

v

  1. To anticipate and prevent something from happening; to dispose of something.
  2. To make something no longer necessary.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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