Avoidance - Law Dictionary Search Results

repellent

repellent : a method used to avoid or discourage a hostile corporate takeover

corporation with a limited number of shareholders. Its major significance is the fact that an S corporation usually avoids corporate income tax. Corporate losses can be claimed by the shareholders. Source: FindLaw

simulation

lack of effect may not be asserted against third parties, such as creditors or bona fide purchasers, to avoid liability.

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smuggle

smuggle smug·gled smug·gling vt : to import or export secretly and illegally esp. to avoid paying duties or to evade enforcement of laws [ drugs] [convicted of smuggling weapons] vi : to export

street name

owned by another (as an individual investor) are listed (as to expedite transfer at time of sale by avoiding handling of the actual certificates)

trust

a trust that is not expressly created by the parties and esp. when a trust is necessary to avoid an inequitable result or to prevent fraud individual policy pension trust : an insurance trust created as a

verdict

to afford the jury the opportunity to render a partial verdict of acquittal on a higher charge to avoid declaring a mistrial because of a hopeless deadlock only on a lesser included offense; such a verdict would

wrongful birth

prenatal testing or diagnosis) effectively deprived the parents of the opportunity to make an informed decision whether to avoid or terminate the pregnancy ;also : the birth or injury at issue in such a claim [recognize a

Bantingism

A method of reducing corpulence by avoiding food containing much farinaceous saccharine or oily matter so called from William Banting of London

intestacy

of the will resulted in her ] 2 : intestate succession at succession [wills should be construed to avoid whenever possible "Smith v. Estate of Peters, 741 P.2d 1172 (1987)"] [ the remaining property passed by to

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