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  • Commitment

    Financial Definition of Commission House Meaning of Commission House A firm which buys and sells future contracts for customer accounts. Related: futures commission merchant, omnibus account. Synonyms of […]

  • Warranty

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Warranty Meaning of Warranty An undertaking to indemnify or make good the party assured against some possible default or defect in the contemplation of the parties. The term is frequently used […]

  • Debtor

    One who owes a debt or anyone who is liable on a debt, whether due or to become due. See First Nat. Bank & trust Co. in Macon v Kunes, (Ga.App.) 197 S.E.2d446.

  • Debtor

    One who owes a debt or anyone who is liable on a debt, whether due or to become due. See First Nat. Bank & trust Co. in Macon v Kunes, (Ga.App.) 197 S.E.2d446.

  • Lien

    A charge upon property of another either real or personal as security for the payment of a debt or performance of a duty in priority to the general debts of the owner . A tie that binds property to a debt or claim for it; satisfaction , as a right to possess and retain […]

  • Lien

    A charge upon property of another either real or personal as security for the payment of a debt or performance of a duty in priority to the general debts of the owner . A tie that binds property to a debt or claim for it; satisfaction , as a right to possess and retain […]

  • Gage

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Gage Meaning of Gage A pledge , pawn or anything given in security . Related Entries of Gage in the Encyclopedia of Law Project Browse or run a search for Gage […]

  • Pignus

    A pledge or security for a debt or demand . In civil law , a pignus was where the pledgee received possession of the thing pledged and hypotheca was where the pledgor retained possession.

  • Transaction

    A word of general import meaning a group of facts so connected together as to be referred to by a single name; as a crime , contract , a wrong .

  • Replegiare

    (Lat.) To replevy; to redeem a thing detained or taken by another, by putting in legal sureties. See De Homine Replegiando. REPLEGrARE DE AVERIIS (Lat.) A writ brought bjr one whose cattle are impounded or distrained, upon security given ,to the sheriff to pursue or answer the […]

  • Bail Bond

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Bail-bond Meaning of Bail-bond A bond with sureties entered into by a defendant to a sheriff, on arrest upon a writ of capias ad respondendum, conditioned for the defendant”s appearance within the […]

  • Distress

    The taking, without legal process , of a personal chattel from the possession of a wrongdoer into the hands of a party aggrieved , as a pledge for the redressing and injury , the performance of a duty, or the satisfaction of a demand . The term also signifies the property […]

  • Oath

    A pledge or promise by which a person swears that a statement made or about to be made is true.

  • Specialty

    A contract under seal.

  • Surety Of The Peace

    Surety of the peace is a species of preventive justice, and consists in obliging those persons whom there is a probable ground to suspect of future misbehavior, to stipulate with, and to give full assurance to the public that such offense as is apprehended shall not take place, by finding […]