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  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Merger

    Merger

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Merger Meaning of Merger In relation to corporations, the term denotes the amalgamation of two corporations to form a new one. The absorption of one corporation by another, which retains its name and […]

  • Cohabitation

    Legal Definition of Cohabitation Meaning of Cohabitation Living together when unmarried. Synonyms of Cohabitation (Living together), noun abiding together act of dwelling together […]

  • Fraud

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Fraud Meaning of Fraud In widest sense, the term denotes an infraction of the rules of fair dealing. while it is impossible to find a definition of fraud to embrace all f.r.s. that it may adopt , for it […]

  • Easement

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Easement Meaning of Easement A right of the owner of one parcel of land, by reason of such ownership, to use the land of another for a special purpose not inconsistent with the general property in the […]

  • Association

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Association Meaning of Association A union of persons for a common purpose, a confederacy . The persons so uniting. A body of persons not invested legally with corporate status . See Pacific Electric […]

  • Abatement

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Abatement Meaning of Abatement A reduction; decrease; as in abatement of pecuniary legacies; where the funds or assets out of which legacies are payable are not sufficient to pay all the legacies in full, […]

  • Transitory Action

    An action founded on a transaction that took place not necessarily within the jurisdiction of the court or where it has no locality in the contemplation of law. See Masci v Young, 109 N.J.L. 453, 162 A. 623. The term is used in the context of jurisdiction of courts, to […]

  • Discrimination

    Discrimination

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Discrimination Meaning of Discrimination A failure to treat all persons equally, generally arising out of a prejudice against a class of persons, race, color, sex. religion , etc. A general failure to […]

  • Novation

    The renewal or remaking of an existing obligation with the express or implied assent of the obligee. A mutual agreement among all parties for discharge of a valid existing obligation by substitution of a new valid obligation by a debtor or another. See Edward Petry & Co. v […]

  • Consolidation

    In Civil Law. The union of the usufruct with the estate out of which it issues, in the same person, which happens when the usufructuary acquires the estate, or vice versa. In either case the usufruct is extinct. Lee. Elm. 424. It may take place in two ways: First, by the usufructuary […]

  • Negligence

    Negligence

    Negligence is the omitting to d: something that a reasonable man would do or the doing of something which a reasonable man would not do so under the existing circumstances. See Watson Bro. Transp. Co. v Jacobsen, 97 N. W.2d 52. 168 Neb. 862; Also Baltimore & P.R. Co. Jones, 95 U.S. 439,24 […]

  • Negligence

    Negligence

    Negligence is the omitting to d: something that a reasonable man would do or the doing of something which a reasonable man would not do so under the existing circumstances. See Watson Bro. Transp. Co. v Jacobsen, 97 N. W.2d 52. 168 Neb. 862; Also Baltimore & P.R. Co. Jones, 95 U.S. 439,24 […]

  • Name

    The discriminative appellation of an individual, a firm, corporation or thing. A word or words used to distinguish a person or thing or class from others. See W.B. Mfg. Co. v Rubenstein, 236 Mass. 215,128 N.E. 21.