Bluff - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: bluffBluff
Having a broad flattened front as the bluff bows of a ship...
Bluffness
The quality or state of being bluff...
Bluff bowed
Built with the stem nearly straight up and down...
Bluffer
One who bluffs...
Bluff headed
Built with the stem nearly straight up and down...
Bluffy
Having bluffs or bold steep banks...
Brusque
Rough and prompt in manner blunt abrupt bluff as a brusque man a brusque style...
Cliff limestone
A series of limestone strata found in Ohio and farther west presenting bluffs along the rivers and valleys formerly supposed to be of one formation but now known to be partly Silurian and partly Devonian...
Complete destruction
Complete destruction, in Article 592 of American Jurisprudence, the statement of law on the consequences of complete destruction of a building is stated as under:592. Complete destruction. - The common-law rule that a lessee is not relieved of his obligation to pay rent through the accidental destruction of the building demised to him presupposes that some part of the premises remains in existence for occupation by the tenant, irrespective of the destruction. If the destruction of the premises is complete - nothing remaining, the subject-matter or thing leased no longer existing then the liability of the tenant for rent ceases or extinguishes. ... Thus, it has been held that the destruction of the property extinguishes the liability for rent, as under a lease of a river front and landing consisting of a narrow footing at the base of a bluff without any wharf, dock, or pier, where the unprecedented ravages of the river effectually took away the use of the landing by washing away all but...
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