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Definition :

Articles, divisions and paragraphs of a document or agreement. It is a common practice for persons to enter into articles of agreement, preparatory to the execution of a formal deed, whereby it is stipulated that one of the parties shall convey to the other certain lands, or release his right to them, or execute some other disposition of them.

Articles are therefore considered as a memorandum or minute of an agreement to make some future disposition or modification of property. Such an instrument will create a trust or equitable estate, and a specific performance of it will be decreed inequity.

Articles are usually entered into for the purchase and sale of lands, for the taking and granting of leases, for making settlements on marriage, and for forming partnerships. And see ASSOCIATION.

And see IMPEACHMENT.