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inventory

organization, or estate or succession that is made by a fiduciary under oath and that usually describes and assigns a value to the items or classes of property b : aggregate value assigned to an inventory 2

Mercantile Law Amendment Act, 1856 (English)

18 of that Act); (5) that a surety who discharges a liability is to be entitled to an assignment of all securities held by the creditor; (Ss. 6 and 7) that an acceptance of a bill of

Assignee

and are therefore often forced to look to the intent of the assignor and assignee in making the assignment, rather than to the formality of the use of the term assignee in defining rights and responsibilities, Black

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Dower

(English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27), s. 41. An action for assignment of dower is not within this Act, though the Court may refuse relief on the ground of laches,

Deputation

Inder Singh, AIR 1998 SC 7 (15): (1998) 7 SCC 372. 'Deputation' can be aptly described as an assignment of an employee (commonly referred to as the deputationist) of one department or cadre or even an organisation

Delegation

Delegation, a sending away; a putting into commission; the assignment of a debt to another; the entrusting another with a power to act in the place of those

Defeasance (defeasance)

frequently adopted in order to revive the condition, and so virtually to limit the license to the particular assignment, but the (English) Law of Property Amendment Act, 1859 (22 & 23 Vict. c. 35), replaced by the

Dearle v. Hall

name from this case, reported 1823, 3 Russ. 1, originated with the bankruptcy rule conferring the priority of assignments of choses in action according to the date of notice to the debtor by the assignment, Ryall v.

Confessing error

Confessing error, the affirmative plea to an assignment of error.

Civil list

for the Crown out of the taxes, in lieu of its proper patrimony, and in consideration of the assignment of that patrimony to the public use. This arrangement has prevailed from the time of the Revolution downwards,

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