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Return
In a general sense, to bring back or restore. product , yield , income , realization, receipts, as in the phrase return on investments. In relation to court process , a return of a writ is a statement in writing made by a sheriff or other ministerial officer to the court […]
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Return
In a general sense, to bring back or restore. product , yield , income , realization, receipts, as in the phrase return on investments. In relation to court process , a return of a writ is a statement in writing made by a sheriff or other ministerial officer to the court […]
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Public
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Public Meaning of Public All the inhabitants of a particular place . The whole body politic; or the aggregate of the citizens of a state , district or municipality . Open to all, open for the use, […]
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Collateral
Situated, running side by side, parallel , co-ordinate, corresponding, additional to the obligations of a contract or the like. Also secondary , subordinate , related to main matter and consideration but not strictly a part thereof. See James Emp. credit union v Hawley, 87 N. […]
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Right
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Right Meaning of Right In its legal sense, the term denotes the liberty or privilege conferred or protected by law of doing or abstaining from doing an act or the power or privilege enforced by law of […]
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Fact
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Fact Meaning of Fact A thing done; an action performed or an incident transpiring; an event or circumstance ; an actual occurrence; an actual happening in time, space or an event mental or physical ; that […]
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Period
A day, week, month or other subdivision of a year. 12 C. F. R. §226.2(t).
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Between
Intervening time, space, position or state v Johnson, 275 So. 405.
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Appropriate
Set apart for or assign to a particular purpose, person or use, to the exclusion of others, as in to appropriate land for road widening purposes. To apply funds for a particular purpose, as when a creditor appropriates payments made to an earlier debt. To make a thing one’s own; to […]
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Popular Definitions A-Z
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Droit
(Fr.) In French Law. Law; the whole body of law, written and unwritten. A right. No law exists without a duty. Toullier, Dr. Civ. note 96; Poth. Dr. Droit d’ accession. That property whichi is acquired by making a new species out of the material of another. Modus acquirandi quo quis […]
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Confusion
In Common Law. The intermixture of the goods of two persons, so that the several portions can be no longer distinguished. 2 Bl, Comm. 405. The term, and, in a great degree, the doctrine, are borrowed from the confusio of the civil law. The meaning of the former, however, has been so far […]
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Condemn
To sentence; to adjudge. 3 Bl. Comm. 291. To declare a vessel a prize; to declare a vessel unfit for service. 1 Kent, Comm. 102; 5 Esp. 65. To take by exercise of the power of eminent domain. …
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Means
That through which, or by the help of which an end is attained; something ending to an object desired; intermediate agency or measure; necessary condition or co-agent; instrument. See U.S. v Loft on 6th Floor of Building, etc., (D. C.N. Y.) 182 F.Supp. 322. The term also denotes available […]
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Insolvency, Insolvent
An insolvent is one whose liabilities exceed his assets, who is unable to pay his debts as they become due, one who has committed an act of insolvency in the meaning of the bankruptcy statutes. If it is a corporation, it is deemed to be insolvent if its assets can never be made to pay…