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utmost good faith

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noun

  1. 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

A real estate broker in the employ of his principal is bound to act for his principal alone, using his utmost good faith in his behalf.

From Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman by Bolles, Albert Sidney

Promotions that are failures may be perfectly legitimate and conducted in the utmost good faith, but manipulations are nearly always for the purpose of swindling the public.

From Successful Stock Speculation by Butler, John James

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