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con·fu·sion n1 in the civil law of Louisiana: a uniting of two interests or rights in property into one compare merger 12 in the civil law of Louisiana: the termination of an obligation by a person acquiring the right from which the obligation arose3: the mixing or blending together of goods or commodities so that the individual owners cannot identify their own property – called also confusion of goods;
Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam-Webster. 1996.
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(ambiguity) noun
agitation, amorphousness, astonishment, brouhaha, complex, complexity, complication, confusion, congestion, convulsion, disarrangement, disarray, discomposure, dislocation, disorganization, distraction, doubt, enigma, ferment, fog, fracas, fuzziness, haze, hodgepodge, imbroglio, intricacy, involution, jumble, labyrinth, maze, melee, mix-up, opacity, panic, paraphrenia, patchwork, perplexity, rumpus, scramble, skein, stupefaction, to-do, tumult, turbulence, uncertainty, uproar, vagueness
associated concepts: confusion of goods, confusion of issues, confusion of rights
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(commotion) noun
chaos, dilemma, disorder, disturbance, embroilment, entanglement, havoc, imbroglio, irregularity, medley, muddle, pandemonium, shambles, snarl, tangle, turmoil
III
(consternation) noun
befuddlement, chagrin, confoundment, disconcertion, disorientation, distress, fear, fluster, fright, mortification, mystification, perturbation, quandary, suffusion, trepidation
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(turmoil) noun
anarchy, chaos, clamor, clutter, commotion, complexity, confusio, congestion, demoralization, difficulty, disarrangement, disarray, discord, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disquiet, disquietude, distraction, disturbance, entanglement, farrago, ferment, frenzy, havoc, imbroglio, inseparable intermixture, muddle, pandemonium, perturbatio, rampage, shapelessness, tumult, turbulence, unrest, unsettlement, upheaval, uproar
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ambiguity, anarchy, commotion, complex (entanglement), complication, dilemma, disorder (lack of order), disturbance, doubt (indecision), embarrassment, embroilment, enigma, havoc, imbroglio, involution, irregularity, jargon (unintelligible language), misrule, opacity, pandemonium, panic, quandary, riot, shambles, snarl, turmoil
Burton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006
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The combination or mixture of two things; the process of commingling.
Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.
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The combination or mixture of two things; the process of commingling.
Short Dictionary of (mostly American) Legal Terms and Abbreviations.
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