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What does precatory mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word precatory? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Expressing a wish.
  2. (law) Expressing a wish but not creating any legal obligation or duty.
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The vehicle whereby the preliminary draft Protocol sought to answer these needs was in its precatory provisions.
Such a provision is of a precatory nature and probably does not add much to the already existing obligation to interpret international Conventions in a consistent and uniform manner.
Many of the examples quoted by Roman controversialists are not precatory at all, but simply declarative.
Two extremely toxic plants are castor bean and precatory bean or rosary pea.
Consideration should be given as to whether Chapter V of this Protocol ought to include an associated precatory provision requiring compensation in the case of government confiscation, condemnation or requisition.
Finally, what is the incentive of accountants to follow the precatory guidance of the organisation?

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