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  • Bond

    Bond

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Bond Meaning of Bond A contract under seal to pay a sum of money ; a contract under seal acknowledging a debt, present or future. This is a single bond. A double bond is one where there is a condition […]

  • Contract

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Contract Meaning of Contract A deliberate engagement between competent parties upon a legal consideration to do or abstain from doing some act. It is essential to the creation of a contract that the […]

  • Redemption

    Redemption

    The process of cancelling and annulling a defeasible title , such as is created by a mortgage or tax sale, by paying debt or fulfilling the condition . The process of redeeming: See equity of redemption .

  • Statistics

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Statistics Meaning of Statistics The science of collecting and arranging facts illustrative of any condition , resources , class or section of the people or the population as a whole. Numerical values […]

  • Liability

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Liability Meaning of Liability The word is a general one and has no judicially fixed meaning, the judicial interpretations being largely dependent on the context and the statute where the word occurs. […]

  • Blackmail

    Synonymous with extortion. The extortion of money from a person by threats of accusation or exposure or opposition in the public prints; hush money; bribe to keep silence; obtaining value from a person as a condition of refraining from making an accusation against him, or disclosing some […]

  • Blackmail

    Synonymous with extortion. The extortion of money from a person by threats of accusation or exposure or opposition in the public prints; hush money; bribe to keep silence; obtaining value from a person as a condition of refraining from making an accusation against him, or disclosing some […]

  • Defeasance

    Defeasance

    Condition annexed to an estate ( of an obligation , made with and annexed t the obligation at the time of the makin thereof. where the condition is containe in the same instrument creating the obligi tion, it is called condition. Where it contained in a separate instrument, it called […]

  • Defeasance

    Defeasance

    Condition annexed to an estate ( of an obligation , made with and annexed t the obligation at the time of the makin thereof. where the condition is containe in the same instrument creating the obligi tion, it is called condition. Where it contained in a separate instrument, it called […]

  • Lessee

    Hello Legal Definition and Related Resources of Lessee Meaning of Lessee See lease . Lessee Alternative Definition He to whom a lease is mades he who holds an estate by virtue of a lease. See […]

  • Right

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Right Meaning of Right In its legal sense, the term denotes the liberty or privilege conferred or protected by law of doing or abstaining from doing an act or the power or privilege enforced by law of […]

  • Tail

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Tail Meaning of Tail An estate in tail was a mode of keeping property in the direct lineal descendants of an ancestor . A freehold of inheritance gifted to a person and the heirs of his body, general or […]

  • Commercial

    Anything pertaining or connected with trade, traffic and commerce in general. See Jordan v Tashiro, 278 U.S. 213, 49 S.Ct. 47, 73 L.Ed. 214.

  • Means

    That through which, or by the help of which an end is attained; something ending to an object desired; intermediate agency or measure; necessary condition or co-agent; instrument. See U.S. v Loft on 6th Floor of Building, etc., (D. C.N. Y.) 182 F.Supp. 322. The term also denotes available […]