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annuity

this entry var·i·able annuity [ver-ē-ə-bəl-] : an annuity that is backed primarily by a fund of common stocks and whose payments … the beginning of each payment interval rather than at the end contingent annuity : an annuity whose starting or ending date

Rent

on account of failure of the tenant to surrender possession back in spite of the expiry of the term of the … of half-yearly or quarterly payments, nothing is due until the end of the year. Rent is considered as of a higher

Tenure

Com. 59 et seq. Without tracing the origin of tenure back into remote antiquity, it is ascertained that there were origin-ally … office begins when he joins and it comes to an end on the completion of the tenure unless curtailed on justifiable

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Settlement

also vested in the State, and thereafter it is settled back with the outgoing proprietor by the operation of law, Brijnandan … Settlement, means an agreement ending a dispute or a law suit, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th

Resumption

when it is needed for industrial purposes. Resumption means taking back what was given; what was resumed are the lands and … Bro. Ab. 291. 2. By agricultural landlord, before legal tenancy ended, of the tenant's land (generally in part only) for building,

piracy

also aircraft piracy Article I of the Constitution in the back matter 2 a : the unauthorized copying, distribution, or use … illegal act of violence, detention, or plunder committed for private ends by crew or passengers of a private ship or aircraft

Quaestor

7th Edn., p. 1253. Means the office of quaestor goes back at least to the beginning of the Republic. Each year … increased, The Elements of Roman Law R.W. Lee, 15 (4th End., 1956). A Roman magistrate.

Preferential payments

and 153, as to administration of small estates; Cairney v. Back, (1906) 2 KB 746; Re Beeton, (1913) 2 Ch 279; … in husbandry paid partly in a lump sum at the end of the year of hiring to have the whole or

Pawn or Pledge

if the pledgee lose the thing pledged, or deliver it back to the pledgor unless for a temporary or special purpose. … to the pawnor. The contract of pledge is put an end to or extinguished:- (1) By the full payment of the

Executor

only evidence of his title; as a rule it relates back to the time of the testator' death, and as the … should be obtained within two calendar months after it is ended [(English) Stamp Act, 1815 (55 Geo 3. C. 184, s.

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