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  • Forfeiture

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Forfeiture Meaning of Forfeiture Denotes the loss of some right , property , benefit or privilege by a person as a result of having Committed a crime or breached some legal obligation imposed on him. […]

  • Forfeiture

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Forfeiture Meaning of Forfeiture Denotes the loss of some right , property , benefit or privilege by a person as a result of having Committed a crime or breached some legal obligation imposed on him. […]

  • 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 […]

  • Penalty

    Penalty

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Penalty Meaning of Penalty A punishment . Suffering in person or property as a punishment annexed by law or judicial decision to a violation of law. Also a definite sum named in a contract , not as a […]

  • Information

    Information

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Information Meaning of Information The accusation of a complainant in written form specifying the charge and particulars. Different from an indictment in that an information is presented by a competent […]

  • Suicide

    Self-slaughter; a self-slaughterer. At common law , suicide by a sane person was a felony and entailed forfeiture of his goods and chattels to the crown and burial of his body in the highway with a stake driven through the body, and without Christian rights of sepulchre. The […]

  • Suicide

    Self-slaughter; a self-slaughterer. At common law , suicide by a sane person was a felony and entailed forfeiture of his goods and chattels to the crown and burial of his body in the highway with a stake driven through the body, and without Christian rights of sepulchre. The […]

  • Provision

    A clause in a legal document. Any right of patronage exerted by the Pope. In English law, a name given to certain statutes or acts of parliament such as Provisions of Oxford (1258), Provisions of westminster (1259). The term provision was the word used originally to designate an […]

  • Cost

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Cost Meaning of Cost The price paid for anything, outlay, expense. When a building contract refers to actual cost, the term is to be construed as meaning the amount which was in fact paid out for […]

  • Family

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Family Meaning of Family In primary meaning, it is the collective body of persons who live in one house anc under one head or management . secondary meaning is those who are of the same line age, or […]

  • County

    A geographical area composed of local or minor municipalities, established by authority for municipal purposes.

  • Fine

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Fine Meaning of Fine In criminal law, the term denotes one form of punishment imposed whereby the offender is ordered to pay a certain sum o: money . It is a pecuniary penalty and may include forfeiture […]

  • Devolution

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Devolution Meaning of Devolution transmission of an interest in property from one person to another by operation of law, particularly on the death of the former person. <div […]

  • Condition

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Condition Meaning of Condition state or mode in which a person or thing exists. In real estate law, the term condition denotes any qualification , restriction or limitation annexed to a gift, and […]

  • Condition

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Condition Meaning of Condition state or mode in which a person or thing exists. In real estate law, the term condition denotes any qualification , restriction or limitation annexed to a gift, and […]