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  • Marine Insurance

    Marine Insurance

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Marine Insurance Meaning of Marine Insurance An insurance against marine losses, that is, the losses incident to marine adventure. An insurance against risks connected with navigation to which a ship, […]

  • Ratio

    An account , a rule of proportion , also, a cause , or giving judgment therein. Reason. Ground of a decision .

  • Forum

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Forum Meaning of Forum The place in which a remedy at law can be sought. Forum Alternative Definition At Common Law. A place; a place of jurisdiction ; […]

  • Heifer

    A young cow which has not had a calf; a beast of this kind two years and a half old was held to be improperly described in the indictment as a cow. 2 East, P. C. 616; 1 Leach, C. C. 105. …

  • Neutrality

    Neutrality

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

  • Repeal

    Annulling or the abrogation or the revocation of a statute by the enactment of a subsequent statute which latter one expressly declares that the former one is repealed. Repeal may be express or by implication . A prior statute is said to be repealed by implication if its […]

  • National

    Pertaining or relating to a nation as a whole. Generally denotes the citizen or a person who belongs to a particular nation. As used in the phrase national of the United States, the term is broader than the term citizen. See Brassert v Biddle, (D.C. Conn.) 59 F.Supp. 457. As defined in the […]

  • Man

    A human being; a person of the male sex; a male of the human species above the age of puberty, as distinguished from a woman or a boy. 106 Wis. 346. In its most extended senSe, the term includes not only the adult male sex of the human species, but women and children. Examples: Of…

  • 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 […]

  • Bond

    Bond

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Bond Meaning of Bond A contract under seal to pay a sum of money ; a contract under seal acknowledging a debt, present or future. This is a single bond. A double bond is one where there is a condition […]

  • 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 […]

  • Parliament

    Parliament

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Parliament Meaning of Parliament The legislative division of English government consisting of the Queen, the house of commons and the House of Lords. Parliament […]

  • Building

    Anything erected by art, and fixed upon or in the soil, composed of different pieces connected together and designed for stand more or less permanently, enclosing a space within its walls, and usually, but not necessarily, covered with a roof.

  • Waste

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Waste Meaning of Waste The destruction, misuse, alteration or neglect of premises by one lawfully in possession thereof, to the prejudice of the estate or interest therein of another. Jowdy v Guerin, 10 […]