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Home Dictionary Name: affix Page: 2 Page 2 of about 64 results ( seconds)Entitle
To give a title to to affix to as a name or appellation hence also to dignify by an honorary designation to denominate to call as to entitle a book ldquoCommentariesrdquo to entitle a man ldquoHonorablerdquo...
mark
mark 1 : a character usually in the form of a cross or X that is made as a substitute for a signature by a person who cannot or is unwilling to write 2 : a character, device, label, brand, seal, or other sign put on an article or used in connection with a service esp. to show the maker or owner, to certify quality, or for identification: a : trademark b : service mark vt 1 : to fix or trace out the bounds or limits of [a landowner ing his boundary] 2 : to affix a significant identifying mark (as a trademark) to mark to the market 1 : to adjust (cash deposited with a lender of securities) to the prevailing market price 2 : to value (an option or futures contract) in accordance with the market value prevailing on the last business day of the year for tax purposes ...
Unsound food
Unsound food. Extensive powers for the inspection and seizure of unsound food are given by the (English) Public Health Act, 1875, ss. 116-119, and the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, s. 47. By sub-s. 4 of the latter Act the seller of unsound food may be ordered, upon a second conviction, to affix a notice of the facts upon his premises; and under this section. proceedings may be taken by a private individual, Giebler v. Manning, (1906) 1 KB 709. As to the position of a wholesale butcher when unsound meat is seized while in the possession of the retailer to whom he sold it, see Grivell v. Malpas, (1906) 2 KB 32, and as to the power of a butcher to obtain compensation when a prosecution results in an acquittal, see Hobbs v. Winchester Corporation, (1910) 2 KB 471. Compare the title ADULTERATION....
sign
sign 1 : to affix a signature to : ratify or attest by hand or seal [ a bill into law] ;specif : to write or mark something (as a signature) on (a document) as an acknowledgment of one's intention to be bound by it 2 : to assign or convey formally [ed the property over to his brother] sign·er n ...
paraph
paraph in the civil law of Louisiana : the signature of a notary public on a document accompanied by a date, identification of parties, seal, or other required elements vt in the civil law of Louisiana : to affix a paraph to [ed the mortgage] ;also : to include (as particular words) in a paraph ...
Predate
To date anticipation to affix to a document an earlier than the actual date to antedate as a predated deed or letter...
Re sign
To affix ones signature to a second time to sign again...
Antedate
Antedate, to date a document before the day of its execution.Means to affix with a date earlier than that true date e.g. antedate a check. To precede in time e.g. the doctrine antedates the Smith case by many years, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 91....
Executed trust
Executed trust, When an estate is conveyed to the use of A. and his heirs, with a simple declaration of trust for B. and his heirs, or the heirs of his body, the trust is perfect; and it is said to be executed, because no further act is necessary to be done by the trustee to raise and give effect to it; because there is no ground for the interference of a Court of Equity to affix a meaning to the words declaratory of the trust which they do not legally import, 1 Sand. Uses and Trusts, 335 and see EQUITABLE ESTATE.As all trusts are executory in this sense, that the trustee is bound to dispose of the estate according to the tenure of his trust, it would be more accurate to substitute the terms 'passive' or 'active' for executed and executory trusts....
Letters-patent, or letters overt
Letters-patent, or letters overt [fr. liter' patentes, Lat.], writings of the sovereign, sealed with the Great Seal of England, whereby a person or public company is enabled to do acts or enjoy privileges which he or it could not do or enjoy without such authority. They are so called because they are open with the seal affixed and ready to be shown for confirmation of the authority thereby given. Peers are sometimes created by letters-patent, and letters-patent of precedence were granted to barristers. By letters-patent aliens are made denizens, and especially new inventions are protected; hence the incorporeal chattel of patent-right.A 'patent-right' is a privilege granted by the Crown to the first inventor of any new contrivance in manufactures, that he alone shall be entitled, during a limited period, to make Articles according to his own invention--Statute of Monopolies, 21 Jac. 1, c. 3.To be the subject of a patent-right an article must be material and capable of manufacture, an i...
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