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Deed [fr. d'd, Sax.; ded gaded, Goth.;daed, Dut.], a formal document on paper or parchment duly signed, sealed, and delivered. It is either an indenture (factum inter partes) needing an actual indentation [(English) Real Property Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 106), s. 5], reproduced by the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 56 (2), made between two or more persons in different interests, or a deed-poll (charta de una parte) made by a single person or by two or more persons having similar interests. By the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 57, a deed may be described according to the nature of the transaction, e.g., 'this lease,' 'this mortgage,' etc., or as a 'deed' and not habitually by the word 'indenture.'The requisites of a deed are these:-(1) Sufficient parties and a proper subject of assurance.(2) It must be written, engrossed, printed, or lithographed, or partly written or engrossed, and partly printed or lithographed in any character or in any language, on paper, vellum, or parchm...
Costs
Costs, expenses incurred in litigation or professional transactions, consisting of money paid for stamps, etc., to the officers of the Court, or to the counsel and solicitors, for their fees, etc.Costs in actions are either between solicitor and client, being what are payable in every case to the solicitor by his client, whether he ultimately succeed or not; or between party and party, being those only which are allowed in some particular cases to the party succeeding against his adversary, and these are either interlocutory, given on various motions and proceedings in the course of the suit or action, or final, allowed when the matter is determined.Neither party was entitled to costs at Common Law, but the Statute of Gloucester (6 Edw. 1, c. 4), gave cots to a successful plaintiff, and 2 & 3 Hen. 8, c. 6, and 4 Jac. 1, c. 3, to a victorious defendant; see Garnett v. Bradley, (1878) 3 App Cas 944.In proceedings between the Crown and a subject the general rule is that the Crown neither ...
comparative
comparative : characterized by systematic comparison [ contribution, which apportions according to…respective fault "W. L. Prosser and W. P. Keeton"] com·par·a·tive·ly adv ...
Fortune
The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner chance accident luck hap also the personified or deified power regarded as determining human success apportioning happiness and unhappiness and distributing arbitrarily or fortuitously the lots of life...
Dividend
A sum of money to be divided and distributed the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual a distribute sum share or percentage applied to the profits as appropriated among shareholders and to assets as apportioned among creditors as the dividend of a bank a railway corporation or a bankrupt estate...
Distribution
The act of distributing or dispensing the act of dividing or apportioning among several or many apportionment as the distribution of an estate among heirs or children...
Coinsurance
Insurance jointly with another or others specif that system of fire insurance in which the insurer is treated as insuring himself to the extent of that part of the risk not covered by his policy so that any loss is apportioned between him and the insurance company on the principle of average as in marine insurance or between other insurers...
Cadastre
An official statement of the quantity and value of real estate for the purpose of apportioning the taxes payable on such property a public register showing the details of ownership and value of land...
Blanket clause
A clause as in a blanket mortgage or policy that includes a group or class of things rather than a number mentioned individually and having the burden loss or the like apportioned among them...
liability
liability pl: -ties 1 : the quality or state of being liable 2 : something for which one is liable: as a : a financial obligation : debt [tax ] [the bonds are liabilities] compare asset contingent liability : an amount that may or may not be owed depending on the outcome of a contingency (as a cosigner's default on a loan) fixed liability : a liability (as a bond or mortgage) that does not mature for at least one year from the date incurred or from a given date b : accountability and responsibility to another enforceable by civil remedies or criminal sanctions [ for injuries caused by their product] absolute liability : strict liability in this entry alternative liability : joint liability imposed on multiple tortfeasors when there are simultaneous tortious acts (as defective manufacture of parts of a wheel by different manufacturers) and uncertainty as to which act was the proximate cause of an injury compare concert of action civil liability : liability imposed under c...
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