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libellant also li·bel·ant [lī-bə-lənt] n 1 : a party who institutes a suit (as in admiralty) by a libel ;esp : the petitioner or plaintiff in a divorce proceeding [the agreed to pay alimony] 2 : libeler ...
debt
debt [Old French dette, ultimately from Latin debita, plural of debitum debt, from neuter of debitus, past participle of debere to owe] 1 : something owed: as a : a specific sum of money or a performance due another esp. by agreement (as a loan agreement) [to pay the s…of the United States "U.S. Constitution art. I"] [a for alimony] b : an obligation to pay or perform on another's claim [discharged the ] compare asset, equity NOTE: It is often up to the courts to decide what is or is not a debt under various laws. Courts disagree whether criminal restitution is a debt under the Bankruptcy Code. The historical practice of imprisoning debtors for nonpayment is no longer used. antecedent debt : debt that is incurred prior to a property transfer paying or securing the debt compare preference bad debt : a debt that cannot be collected NOTE: An income tax deduction is allowed for bad debts. consumer debt : debt that is incurred by an individual primarily for the purchase of ...
award
award [Anglo-French awarder agarder to look at, decide on, impose, alteration of Old French esguarder to look at, from es-, intensive prefix + guarder to guard] 1 : to give in accordance with a judicial or administrative determination or decision [ punitive damages] 2 : to grant as deserved [ed the contract to the lowest bidder] n 1 : a judgment or final decision: as a : arbitrator's award b : a formal decision regarding benefits in a workers' compensation claim 2 : something granted esp. on the basis of merit or entitlement: as a : a contract won by a successful bidder b : relief usually in the form of money (as damages or alimony) granted to a party in a legal proceeding ...
Support
Support, to support a rule or order is to argue in answer to the arguments of the party who has shown cause against a rule or order nisi.The help which every landowner receives at the boundary of his land from his neighbour's land, which lies close to his and prevents its falling in and crumbling away, as it would do if his neighbour dug away the surface of his land to the very edge, Goddard on Easements. The right of an owner to the support of surface in its natural position is a presumption of Common Law and not part of a grant of mines or power to work the same, and a power to let down the surface must be expressly granted in a lease, Warwickshire Coal Company v. Coventry Corporation, 1934 Ch 488. As to the right of support for buildings, see, further, the leading case of Dalton v. Angus, (1881) 6 App Cas 740, in which it was held by the House of Lords that there is natural right to lateral support for buildings. This is an easement which may be acquired by twenty years' uninterrupt...
Maintenance
Maintenance, an officious intermeddling in a suit which in no wise concerns one, by assisting either party with money or otherwise to prosecute or defend it; both actionable and indictable [see Bradlaugh v. Newdegate, (1883) 11 QBD 1], and invalidates contracts involving it. By the Roman Law it was a species of crimen falsi to enterin to any confederacy, or do any act to support another's law-suits, by money, witnesses, or patronage, 4 Bl. Com. 134.It is either ruralis, in the country as where one assists another in his pretensions to lands, by taking or holding the possession of them for him; or where one stirs up quarrels or suits in the country; or it is curialis, in a Court of justice, where one officiously intermeddles in a suit depending in any court, which does not belong to him, and with which he has nothing to do, 2 Rol. Abr. 115. Maintaining suits in the spiritual courts is not within the statutes relating to maintenance, Cro. Eliz. 549. A man may, however, maintain a suit in...
Charities, or Public Trusts
Charities, or Public Trusts. One of the earliest fruits of the Emperor Constantine's zeal, or pretended zeal, for Christianity, was a permission to his subjects to bequeath their property to the Church. This permission was soon abused to so great a degree as to induce the Emperor Valentinian to enact to Mortmain Act by which it was restrained. But this restraint was gradually relaxed; and in the time of Justinian it became a fixed maxim of civil law that legacies to pious uses (which included all legacies destined to works of charity, whether they related to spiritual or temporal concerns) were entitled to peculiar favour, and to be deemed privileged testaments.Lord Thurlow was clearly of opinion that the doctrine of charities grew up from the civil law; and Lord Eldon, in assenting to that opinion, has judiciously remarked, that at an early period that ordinary had the power to apply a portion of every man's personal estate to charity; and when afterwards the statute compelled a distr...
Charitable uses and trusts
Charitable uses and trusts. 9 Geo. 2, c. 26, commonly called 'The Mortmain Act,' 1735, after reciting that ifts or alienations of land in mortmain (see MORTMAIN) were prohibited by Magna Charta and other whole-some laws as prejudicial to the common utility, and that such public mischief had greatly increased by many large and improvident dispositions, made by languishing or dying persons to charitable uses, to take place after their deaths to the disherison of their lawful heirs, enacted that no lands or other hereditaments whatsoever, nor money, or personal estate to be laid out in land should be given to any person or bodies corporate, or charged by any person in trust, for any charitable uses, unless such gift, etc., should be made by deed (thus entirely excluding gifts by will) executed twelve months before the death of the donor and be enrolled in the court of Chancery within six calendar months after execution, and be without any power of revocation for the benefit of the donor.T...
Maintenance
The act of maintaining sustenance support defense vindication...
Executory trusts
Executory trusts. In the case of articles of agreement, made in contemplation of marriage, and which are consequently preparatory to a settlement, and in the case of those wills which are merely directory of a subsequent conveyance, the trusts declared by them are said to be executory or imperfect, because they require an ulterior act to raise and perfect them. They are rather considered as instructions for settlements than as instruments in themselves complete; and therefore Equity, in order to promote the presumed views of the parties in the one case and to support the manifest intention of the testator in the other, will attach to the words expressive of the trusts a more liberal and enlarged construction than they would admit if applied either to the limitation of a legal estate or a trust executed, 1 Sand. Uses and Trusts, 237, Lord Glenorchy v. Bosville, (1733) Cas Temp Talb 3; 1 W&TLC....
necessaries
necessaries 1 : goods, services, or expenses that are considered necessary: as a : such goods, services, or expenses as are essential to the maintenance and support of a present or former spouse or of the child of divorced parents and for which one spouse or parent may seek reimbursement or contribution from the other b : essential goods or services furnished to a vessel whose supplier may be entitled to a maritime lien 2 : goods or services delivered to a minor that are considered by reference to his or her circumstances to warrant holding the minor to a contract for them despite an attempt to disaffirm it ...
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