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Lamb-weston rule

a loss, and each of them contains an other-insurance clause - creating a conflict in the order or apportionment of coverage - both of the other-insurance clauses will be disregarded and liability will be prorated between the

Agricultural rates

Agricultural rates, The (English) Agricultural Rates Act, 1896, as amended by the (English) Agricultural Rates Act, 1923, provides that the occupier (including the owner if rated in place of the occupier) of agricultural land shall be...

Contract

severable contract, on the other hand, is one the consideration of which is, by its terms, susceptible of apportionment on either side, so as to correspond to the unascertained consideration on the other side, as a contract

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Conditions of sale

sale usually refer to the following matters:-Bidding at the auction, payment of deposit, date of completion, possession, and apportionment of outgoings, rights to interest or rents and profits, upon delay or completion after the fixed day, delivery

Reapportionment

A second or a new apportionment

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

reapportion

(seats in a house of representatives) in accordance with new population distribution vi : to make a new apportionment re·ap·por·tion·ment n

distribution

distribution 1 : the act or process of distributing: as a : the apportionment by a court of the property and esp. personal property of an intestate among those entitled to it

contribution

payment of a judgment by joint tortfeasors esp. according to proportional fault compare apportion b : pro rata apportionment of loss among all the insurance policies covering the same person or property compare indemnity 2 : the

Copyhold

agreement to surrender, because it is only due upon an actual admittance. Tenants in common pay this fine apportionably, each according to his share. Joint tenants and coparceners pay a single fine for all. The practice as

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