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1. (formal) Not affecting nor considering other possibly related issues.
   • 1957 July, C. Hamilton Ellis, “Six Decades of Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 471:

     In the present writer's opinion there was no greater and more successful locomotive engineer in the country, during the first quarter-century, than George Jackson Churchward of the Great Western Railway. This statement is made without prejudice, for I was brought up on the other line extending from Waterloo to Padstow, and between Swindon and Eastleigh there was a great gulf fixed.

2. (law) Without affecting a legal interest.
3. Without binding future decisions or requiring a certain position to be taken in the future; (law) used to allow a statement or proposal in communications, while allowing the party to return to their original position without being impeded by the described statement or proposal.

   resolving that a sea snake should be cooked before eating, without prejudice as to whether or not a sea snake will be considered a 'fish'

• with prejudice

• terminate with extreme prejudice