Category: Definition

  • Farmer

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Farmer Meaning of Farmer One who owns and operates a farm. Farmer Alternative Definition The lessee of a farm. It is said that every lessee for life or […]

  • Veto

    The right of forbidding or denying without assigning any reasons therefor.

  • Maritime Law

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Maritime Law Meaning of Maritime Law The system of law which particularly relates to commerce and navigation , to harbors, ships and seamen, to business transacted at sea or relating to navigation, to the […]

  • Littoral

    Belonging to shore , as of seas an: great lakes. Wernberg v state of Alas- . 516 P.2d 1191.

  • Assessment

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Assessment Meaning of Assessment The act or process of fixing or ascertaining the value , measure or proportion or interest of any thing or person . In relation to corporations, the term may refer to […]

  • Resolution

    Resolution

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Resolution Meaning of Resolution A solemn judgment or decision of a court . A formal statement of the opinion or intention of an official body or corporation . See Wiley v Woods, 141 A.2d 844, 393 Pa. […]

  • Marine Insurance

    Marine Insurance

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Marine Insurance Meaning of Marine Insurance An insurance against marine losses, that is, the losses incident to marine adventure. An insurance against risks connected with navigation to which a ship, […]

  • Ratio

    An account , a rule of proportion , also, a cause , or giving judgment therein. Reason. Ground of a decision .

  • Forum

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Forum Meaning of Forum The place in which a remedy at law can be sought. Forum Alternative Definition At Common Law. A place; a place of jurisdiction ; […]

  • Neutrality

    Neutrality

    The status of a nation which takes no part between two or more belligerents.

  • Repeal

    Annulling or the abrogation or the revocation of a statute by the enactment of a subsequent statute which latter one expressly declares that the former one is repealed. Repeal may be express or by implication . A prior statute is said to be repealed by implication if its […]

  • Bank

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Bank Meaning of Bank An association or corporation whose business it is to receive money on deposit , cash checks or drafts, discount commercial papers, make loans and issue promissory notes payable to […]

  • 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 […]

  • Dealer

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Dealer Meaning of Dealer One who buys to sell again; one who trades in, buys or sells goods on his own account . Brown & Zortman machinery Co. v Citv of Pittsburgh, 100 A.2d 98, 375 Pa. 250. <div […]