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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
inducement
    n 1: a positive motivational influence [syn: incentive,
         inducement, motivator] [ant: deterrence,
         disincentive]
    2: act of bringing about a desired result; "inducement of sleep"
       [syn: inducement, inducing]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Inducement \In*duce"ment\, n. [From Induce.]
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   1. The act of inducing, or the state of being induced.
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   2. That which induces; a motive or consideration that leads
      one to action or induces one to act; as, reward is an
      inducement to toil. "Mark the inducement." --Shak.
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   3. (Law) Matter stated by way of explanatory preamble or
      introduction to the main allegations of a pleading; a
      leading to.
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   Syn: Motive; reason; influence. See Motive.
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3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
INDUCEMENT, pleading. The statement of matter which is introductory to the 
principal subject of the declaration or plea, &c., but which is necessary to 
explain and elucidate it; such matter as is not introductory to or necessary 
to elucidate the substance or gist of the declaration or plea, &c. nor is 
collaterally applicable to it, not being inducement but surplusage. 
Inducement or conveyance, which. are synonymous terms, is in the nature of a 
preamble to an act of assembly, and leads to the Principal subject of the 
declaration or plea, &c. the same as that does to the purview or providing 
clause of the act. For instance, in an action for a nuisance to property in 
the possession of the plaintiff, the circumstance of his being possessed of 
the property should be stated as inducement, or byway of introduction to the 
mention of the nuisance. Lawes, Pl. 66, 67; 1 Chit. Pl. 292; Steph. Pl. 257; 
14 Vin. Ab. 405; 20 Id. 845; Bac. Ab. Pleas. &c. I 2. 



4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
INDUCEMENT, contracts, evidence. The moving cause of an action.
     2. In contracts, the benefit.which the obligor is to receive is the 
inducement to making them. Vide Cause; Consideration. 
     3. When a person is charged with a crime, he is sometimes induced to 
make confessions by the flattery of hope, or the torture of fear. When such 
confessions are made in consequence of promises or threats by a person in 
authority, they cannot be received in evidence. In England a distinction has 
been made between temporal and spiritual inducements; confessions made under 
the former are not receivable in evidence, while the latter may be admitted. 
Joy on Conf. ss. 1 and 4. 



Thesaurus Results for Inducement:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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