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Earnest [fr. eornest, Sax.], the sum paid by the buyer of goods in order to bind the seller to the...

Oath [fr. ath, Sax.], an appeal to God to witness the truth of a statement. It is called a corporal...

Separate estate. The Common Law did not allow a married woman to posses any property independently of her husband, but...

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Religion, in a wide sense, therefore, is those fundamental principles which sustain life and without which life will not survive,...

Bond [fr. binda, band, bunden, A. S., to bind], a written acknowledgement or binding of a debt under seal. See...

Married women's property, At Common Law, a woman, by marrying, transferred the ownership of all her property, real and personal,...

Arrangements between debtors and creditors. The 125th and 126th sections of the (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1869, which repealed an Act...

Arbitration, the determination of a matter in dispute by the judgment of one or more persons, called arbitrators, who in...

Judicial power, 'judicial power' may be defined as the power to examine questions submitted for determination with a view to...

Market overt, an open or public market. Contracts of sale which transfer the property as against a real owner though...

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