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  • Customs

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Customs Meaning of Customs Duties charged on commodities on their import into or export out of a country. A mode or system of taxation for the raising of money and is a typical form of indirect tax . A […]

  • Custom

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Custom Meaning of Custom usage , having the force of law, being established by long use and consent of ancestors. local common law as distinguished from general common law. Not a statute law but a […]

  • 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 […]

  • Jurisdiction

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Jurisdiction Meaning of Jurisdiction The extent of legal authority and power . A term of large and comprehensive import , it generally denotes the lawful authority of a body to exercise power. The term […]

  • Neutrality

    Neutrality

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

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Sale

    Sale

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Sale Meaning of Sale The transmutation or transfer of the property in a personal chattel from one person to another for a consideration paid or agreed to be paid. state v Mitchell, 156 N.C. 659, 72 S.E. […]

  • Medicine

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Medicine Meaning of Medicine The art of understanding diseases and curing or relieving them when possible. It is that branch of physic which relates to the healing of diseases. It is not restricted to any […]

  • Toll

    Toll

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Toll Meaning of Toll A fixed charge for some privilege granted or service rendered, especially one granted or rendered to the public and payable by whomsoever chooses to utilise the privilege or avail of […]

  • Toll

    Toll

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Toll Meaning of Toll A fixed charge for some privilege granted or service rendered, especially one granted or rendered to the public and payable by whomsoever chooses to utilise the privilege or avail of […]

  • Cemetery

    Of Greek derivation, signifying a sleeping place , and was adopted by early Christians as the name for the place of burial for their dead. See Jenkins v Inhabitants of Andover, 103 Mass. 94. These places were always extra-mural. The custom of using the churchyard as plaÂces of sepulchre did […]

  • 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 […]

  • Taxation

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Taxation Meaning of Taxation The process of taxing or imposing a tax. The raising of moneys by the government for the public purposes by the imposition of tax. […]