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Estoppel

Estoppel, a conclusive admission, which cannot be denied. It is of three kinds:- (1) By matter of record, which imports...

Guarantee, he to whom a guaranty is made; also, and more commonly, the guaranty itself. See GUARANTY. The assurance that...

Incuria, literally means 'carelessness'. In practice per incuriam appears to mean per ignoratum. English courts have developed this principle in...

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International Law. I. Public Law: The law of nations, strictly so called, was in a great measure unknown to antiquity,...

Landlord and tenant. A tenancy arises when the owner of an estate inland, called the lessor or landlord, agrees expressly...

Lien [answering to the tacita hypotheca of the Civil Law], a right in one man to retain that which is...

Recognisance, an acknowledgement of a debt owing to the Crown, with a condition to be void if the recognizor shall...

Partnership, the relation which subsists between persons carrying on a business with a view to profit--so defined by s. 1,...

Per incuriam, are those decisions given in ignorance or forgetfulness of some inconsistent (sic) statutory provision or of some authority...

Retainer. (1) The contract between client and solicitor or between solicitor and counsel for professional services: the contract that such...

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