Avoid - Law Dictionary Search Results

Elude

To avoid slyly by artifice stratagem or dexterity to escape from in a covert manner to mock by an unexpected

Shun

To avoid to keep clear of to get out of the way of to escape from to eschew as to

Vacatura

Vacatura, an avoidance of an ecclesiastical benefice.

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Devitation

An avoiding or escaping also a warning

far as the assets are insufficient to meet the claims of the general creditors. Transactions which would be avoided against an individual in his bankruptcy as a fraudulent preference (Bankruptcy Act, 1914, s. 44, see FRAUDULENT PREFERENCE)

relation back

act (as filing of a document and esp. a pleading) as the time of its effect esp. to avoid a time limit [the relation back of amendments to the date of the original pleading] ;also : the

evade

evade evad·ed evad·ing 1 : to unlawfully fail to pay (taxes) through fraudulent or deceptive means compare avoid 2 : to avoid answering directly [trying to the question]

deed-in-lieu

deed-in-lieu to avoid foreclosure ("in lieu" of foreclosure), a deed is given to the lender to fulfill the obligation to repay

defense

: a defense to a criminal charge based on the assertion that the criminal act was committed to avoid the commission of an even greater evil called also lesser evils defense NOTE: In jurisdictions that recognize the

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