Search results for: “common wall”
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Bill of Sale
A written buyer .
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Boundary
A limiting line, marked or unmarked, by which lands are known and ascertained. A dividing line between two pieces of land.
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Average
Medium, mean proportion . The term is important in marine law. The mean proportion, or quantity made out of an equal sum. Brisendine v Skousen Bros., 62 P.2d 326, 48 Ariz. 416. The law of general Averages is an important part of marine law. Refers to the equitable principle that where an […]
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Contempt
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Contempt Meaning of Contempt A wilful disregard or disobedience of public authority . An act of despising, feeling with which one regards that which is esteemed low, vile or worthless . It consists of […]
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Specific Performance
Where the common law remedy of damages is inadequate to compensate a plaintiff for breach of a contract , equity will compel the defendant to accomplish the thing contracted for on the equitable principle that what is lawfully agreed to be done ought to be done. An action […]
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Release
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Release Meaning of Release A Relinquishment or surrender to another of some claim or interest in property , a right of action , etc. At common law , the term also denoted a conveyance of a larger estate […]
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Alteration
A change in the terms of a contract, made by the agreement of the parties thereto. An act done upon an instrument in writting by a party entitled under it, without the consent of the other party, by which its meaning or language is changed. The term is properly applied to the change in […]
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Alteration
A change in the terms of a contract, made by the agreement of the parties thereto. An act done upon an instrument in writting by a party entitled under it, without the consent of the other party, by which its meaning or language is changed. The term is properly applied to the change in […]
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Bill Of Lading
A property . See Saltus v Everett, N. Y., 20 Wend. 267, 32 Am. Dec. 541.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Set-off
The discharge or reduction of one demand by an opposite one or the right one party has against another to use his claim in full or partial satisfaction of what he owes to the other . See Studley v Boylston Nat. Bank, 229 U.S. 523, 33 S. Ct. 806, 57 L. Ed. 1313. It is…