Legal Definition and Related Resources of Consummate

Bring to completion; accomplish, fulfil, complete , finish. See Taylor v Riley, 133 So.2d 869.

Complete; finished; entire. A marriage is said to be consummate. A right of dower is inchoate when coverture and seisin concur, consummate upon the husband’s death. 1 Washb. Real Prop. 250, 251. A tenancy by the curtesy is initiate upon the birth of issue and consummate upon the death of the wife. 1 Washb. Real Prop. 140; 13 Conn. 83; 2 Me. 400; 2 Bl. Comm. 128. A contract is said to be consummated when everything to be done in relation to it has been accomplished. It is frequently of great importance to know when a contract has been consummated, in order to ascertain the rights of the parties, particularly in the contract of sale. See “Delivery,” where the subject is more fully examined. It is also sometimes of consequence to ascertain where the consummation of the contract took place, in order to decide by what law it is to be governed. See “Conflict of Laws;” “Lex Loci”

verb

• accomplish
• achieve
• actualize
• attain
• attain the goal
• bring to a close
• bring to effect
• carry into effect
• carryout
• carry through
• carry to completion
• complete
• conclude
• conficere
• consummare
• do thoroughly
• effect
• effectuate
• end
• execute
• finalize
• finish
• follow through
• fulfill
• implement
• leave nothing to be desired
• perfect
• perficere
• prosecute to a conclusion
• reach the goal
• realize
• render complete
• terminate
• to bring to completion
• Associated Concepts: consummate dower
• consummation of a marriage
• consummation of an agreement
• constructive serviceforeign phrases: Omne testamentum morte consummatum est
• Every will is consummated by death

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