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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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

It is impossible, in reading those pages, not to be convinced that the prelate acted with the utmost good faith, and with the interests of the country at heart.

From The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 by Dent, John Charles

And under different circumstances, I could be so in the utmost good faith; for I know she's as good and true as she is queenly and beautiful.

From Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain by Lowell, Orson

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