Acknowledgment - Law Dictionary Search Results
Limitation of actions and prosecutions
to enforce his claims by other means which may be still available, such as enforcing a lien, subsequent acknowledgment by the debtor or appropriation of payments, but not by way of set-off (9 Geo. 4, c. 14,
Confession
(1967) 3 SCR 672. [Evidence Act (1 of 1987), s. 24] 'Confession' in common acceptation means and implies acknowledgment of guilt--its evidentiary value and its acceptability however shall have to be assessed by the Court having due
Acknowledgement of a wife's assurance
Recoveries Act, with regard to reversionary interests in personal estate. The (English) Fines and Recoveries Act required the acknowledgment to be made before two commissioners, but the 7th section of the (English) Conveyancing Act, 1882, substituted one
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Bill of Lading
Bill of Lading, a memorandum signed by masters of ships, in their capacity of carriers, acknowledging the receipt of merchants' goods, of which there are usually three parts-one kept by the consignor, one sent
Revive
by acknowledging it; or for a matrimonial offence once condoned by committing another. The legal effect of an acknowledgment of a statute-bared debt is that of a promise to pay the old debt, and for this purpose
Reddition
Reddition, a surrendering or restoring; also, a judicial acknowledgment that the thing in demand belongs to the demandant, and not to the person surrendering (ibid.). An acknowledgment
recognize
recognize -nized -niz·ing 1 : to acknowledge formally: as a : to admit as being of a particular status [ a precedent] [ a union]
Attornment
Attornment [fr. tourner, Fr., to turn], the acknowledgement of a new lord on the alienation of land, and the assent or agreement of the tenant to
Attestation Clause
appended to a will formally prepared, the most common form being as follows:- Signed by the above-named and acknowledged by him as his will in the presence of us present at the same time, who at his
Commissioners, Perpetual
time to time. The (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 167, has abolished the statutory requirements for acknowledgments by married women as respects settlements executed after 1925.
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