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  • 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 […]

  • Gift

    A voluntary transfer of any thing made without consideration or expectation of consideration. The essential components of a valid completed gift of personal property are: competency of the donor to give the gift; voluntary intent on the part of the donor to make a gift; delivery […]

  • Valid

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Valid Meaning of Valid Authorized by law. Legally sufficient or efficacious. Executed with proper formality. Sustainable and effective in law. Valid Alternative […]

  • Award

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Award Meaning of Award The determination or decision of a tribunal or court on the matter in controversy before same. grant , adjudge . Award Alternative […]

  • Award

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Award Meaning of Award The determination or decision of a tribunal or court on the matter in controversy before same. grant , adjudge . Award Alternative […]

  • Prospectus

    Prospectus

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Prospectus Meaning of Prospectus Any offer or confirmation , made in writing or through the medium of television or radio , of the sale of any security of a corporation . Essentially, a document required […]

  • Prospectus

    Prospectus

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Prospectus Meaning of Prospectus Any offer or confirmation , made in writing or through the medium of television or radio , of the sale of any security of a corporation . Essentially, a document required […]

  • Sanction

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Sanction Meaning of Sanction To concur , confirm, consent to, assent , ratify. A penalty or punishment provided as a means of enforcing obedience to a law. […]

  • License

    License

    Permission or authority . A license to do any particular thing is permission or authority to do that thing, and it transfers to grantee the right to do whatever right grantor can transfer to do that which is within the terms of the license. See federal Land Bank of Wichita v […]

  • License

    License

    Permission or authority . A license to do any particular thing is permission or authority to do that thing, and it transfers to grantee the right to do whatever right grantor can transfer to do that which is within the terms of the license. See federal Land Bank of Wichita v […]

  • Execution

    Execution

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Execution Meaning of Execution Completion of an act under authority of the court . The enforcement or effetuation of the judgments or orders of a court. One way of giving effect to a judgment for money […]

  • Change of Name

    Change of name in Law EnforcementMain Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of change of name.ResourcesSee AlsoLaw Enforcement Officer Police Officer Law Enforcement Agency Further Reading change of name […]

  • Frame

    Colloquially, to frame a person means to fabricate the evidence necessary to cause a criminal prosecution of that person.

  • Averment

    In pleading. A positive statement of facts, as opposed to an argumentative or inferential one. Cowp. 683; Bac. Abr. Pleas (B). Averments must contain not only matter, but form. In old pleading, the conclusion’ of a plea, whereby the pleader alleged his readiness to verify […]

  • Composition In Bankruptcy

    An agreement by the creditors of a bankrupt to receive a certain percentum of their claims in full satisfaction. The national bankrupt act provides for such compositions, requiring a formal offer of composition by the bankrupt, a creditors’ meeting to consider the same, and, if […]