utmost good faith

British

noun

Also called: uberrima fides. a principle used in insurance contracts, legally obliging all parties to reveal to the others any information that might influence the others' decision to enter into the contract

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utmost good faith

All in this, it was said, showed that City failed to act "with utmost good faith" and "breached duties of co-operation that it owed to the Premier League".

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Leeds could only be charged with breaching regulation E.4, which says clubs must act in the "utmost good faith" to one another.

From BBC ● May 13, 2026

The English Football League has accused Saints of "observing, or attempting to observe, another club's training session within 72 hours of a scheduled match" and not acting "with the utmost good faith" to another club.

From BBC ● May 12, 2026

In the three centuries since it was founded in Edward Lloyd's Thames-side coffee house, Lloyd's has operated under the watchword "utmost good faith."

From Time Magazine Archive

You know that he has observed 101 them all with the utmost good faith.

From Life of Tecumseh, and of His Brother the Prophet With a Historical Sketch of the Shawanoe Indians by Benjamin Drake

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