What does caveat mean in legal procedures?
“Caveat” is Latin for “beware”.Legal Latin is not approved of much these days.”Caveat emptor” was only ever a legal principle rather than a procedure as such. Procedurally a caveat was a procedure used in Equity Courts in England whereby someone who intended to object to the issue of Probate to a Will would lodge a document officially notifying the Probate Court of a potential objection.Probate could not be sealed until the caveat had been heard and adjudicated, The term may well have been applied to other procedural devices in other jurisdictions outside the scope of this Answer which is to do with UK & Ireland. Ha ha.
