{"id":360939,"date":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.findlaw-admin.com\/ability-law\/dictionary\/definition\/face.html"},"modified":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","slug":"face","status":"publish","type":"dictionary","link":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/face.html","title":{"rendered":"Face"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"fl-index-heading\">\n    <p>term:<\/p>\n    <h1 class=\"fl-h1 fl-mb20\"><\/h1>\n\n    <dl class=\"fl-index-heading-description-list\">\n            <dt class=\"fl-mb10\"><p class=\"fl-text-bold\">n<\/p><\/dt>\n        <dd><p><b>1 a<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> outward appearance <br \/>  <b>b<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> the surface or superficial reading or meaning of something (as a document or statute) that does not take into account outside information &#91;the of &#91;the&#93; deed reveals that she had two purposes in mind &#8220;<i>State v. Rand<\/i>, 366 A.2d 183 (1976)&#8221;&#93; often used in the phrases <i>on its face<\/i> and <i>on the face of<\/i> &#91;is&#8230;neutral <i>on its face<\/i> but has a discriminatory effect on women &#8220;Marcia Coyle&#8221;&#93; &#91;did not see <i>on the face of<\/i> the amendment that it was precisely directed at public as distinguished from private destruction &#8220;<i>O&#8217;Brien v. United States<\/i>, 376 F.2d 538 (1967)&#8221;&#93; <br \/>  <b>2<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> the inscribed or printed side of something (as a document) <br \/>  <i>;broadly<\/i><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> the front side of something inscribed or printed on both sides &#91;the of a stock certificate&#93; <br \/>  <b>3<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/face-value.html\">face value <\/a> <\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n    <div class=\"fl-index-heading-source\">Source: Merriam-Webster&#8217;s Dictionary of Law \u00a91996. Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. Published under license with Merriam-Webster, Incorporated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is &#8216;Face&#8217;? Learn more about legal terms and the law at FindLaw.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":358119,"menu_order":0,"template":"app\/Http\/Controllers\/Templates\/DictionaryArticleController.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","_autodraft_ids":[],"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","_is_real_time_mode":false,"_realtime_collaborators":"","cf_checklist_status":[]},"dictionary_tags":[],"class_list":["post-360939","dictionary","type-dictionary","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/360939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/dictionary"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/358119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"dictionary_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary_tags?post=360939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}