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Specific performance
Specific performance. Equity, in obedience to the cardinal rule of natural justice that a person should perform his agreement enforces, pursuant to a regulated and judicial discretion, the actual accomplishment of a thing stipulated for, on...
Statutory tenant
Statutory tenant, a person remaining in occupation of premises let to him after the determination of or expiry of the period of the tenancy is commonly, though in law not accurately, called a statutory tenant. Statutory...
Tenant
Tenant, embraces in itself, the heirs of the deceased called 'statutory tenants' as even after the determination of the tenancy continued to have an estate on the tenanted premises, which are heritable, Kasturi Lal v. Brimlal,...
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Ultra vires
Ultra vires [Lat.] (beyond the powers), said of a corporation or company when exceeding its authority. If the powers are given or acquired at common law or by custom or by charter, the corporation is a...
English mortgage
English mortgage, Where the mortgagor binds him-self to repay the mortgage-money on a certain date, and transfers the mortgaged property absolutely to the mortgagee, but subject to a proviso that he will retransfer in to the...
Guarantee
Guarantee, he to whom a guaranty is made; also, and more commonly, the guaranty itself. See GUARANTY. The assurance that a contract or legal act will be duly carried out; Something given or existing as security,...
Estoppel
Estoppel, a conclusive admission, which cannot be denied. It is of three kinds:- (1) By matter of record, which imports such absolute and incontrovertible verity, that no person against whom it is producible shall be permitted...
Dictum
Dictum. An observation as to the law made by a judge in the course of a case, but not necessary to its decision, and therefore of no binding effect; often called an obiter dictum, 'a remark...
Hamshackle
To fasten an animal by a rope binding the head to one of the fore legs as to hamshackle a horse or cow hence to bind or restrain to curb
contract
contract [Latin contractus from contrahere to draw together, enter into (a relationship or agreement), from com- with, together + trahere to draw] 1 : an agreement between two or more parties that creates in each party...
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