constructive

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

CONSTRUCTIVE, adjective By construction; created or deduced by construction, or mode of interpretation; not directly expressed, but inferred; as constructive treason. Stipulations, expressed or implied, formal or constructive
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