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cesarean section

the operation of taking a child from the womb by cutting through the walls of the abdomen and uterus so called because Julius Caeligsar is reported to have been brought into the world by such an...

caesarean section

the operation of taking a child from the womb by cutting through the walls of the abdomen and uterus so called because Julius Caeligsar is reported to have been brought into the world by such an...

means test

means test Section 707(b)(2) of the Bankruptcy Code applies a "means test" to determine whether an individual debtor's chapter 7 filing

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cross section

a flat plane cutting through a three dimensional object usually at right angles to the longest axis of the object

Contingent remainder

happened, upon which the remainder vested. As to contingent remainders created by any instru-ment executed after 2nd August, 1877, however, the (English) Contingent Remainders Act, 1877 (40 & 11 Vict. c. 33), provides that every contingent remainder

Remainder

should not affect the estate in contingent remainder, but it was not until the (English) Contingent Remainders Act, 1877 (40 & 41 Vict. c. 33), was passed that the liberal purpose of the Act of 1844 was … would have been a good contingent remainder, and the condition would be viewed as surplusage, Fearne's Cont. Rem. 270. So, if the limitation had been to the widow durante viduitate, the remainder would have been good; as

Tort

Tort [fr. tortus, Lat.], an injury or wrong independent of contract, as by assault, libel, malicious prosecution, negligence, slander, or trespass (see those titles). Actions are divided into actions in contract and actions in tort: see...

Verba chartarum fortius accipiuntur contra proferentem

strongly against the grantor.) Bacon styles this 'a rule drawn out of the depth of reason'; but in 1877, Jessel, M.R., in Taylor v. St. Helen's Corporation, 6 Ch D at p. 280, citing three House of

Gilbert

was ldquoDulcamarardquo 1866 He also wrote ldquoThe Palace of Truthrdquo 1870 ldquoPygmalion and Galateardquo 1871 ldquoSweetheartsrdquo 1874 ldquoEngagedrdquo 1877 ldquoThe Mountebanksrdquo 1891 and in collaboration with Sir A Sullivan who wrote the music he wrote ldquoThe Sorcererrdquo

Executory devise

determination of any preceding estate of freehold by forfeiture, surrender or merger, and the (English) Contingent Remainders Act, 1877 (40 & 41 Vict. c. 33), which provided that every contin-gent remainder created after 2nd August, 1877, which

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