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city attorney

called city solicitor or city counselor. At the town level, the title used is often town counsel. In Boston, the title corporation counsel is used. In Cleveland, it is director of law.

corporation counsel

corporation counsel : the city attorney in some cities (as Boston)

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libel

in law by filing a libel (as against a ship or goods) [several French ships were libeled in Boston "J. K. Owens"]

Between

In the space which separates betwixt as New York is between Boston and Philadelphia

From

out of which anything proceeds the antithesis and correlative of to as it is one hundred miles from Boston to Springfield he took his sword from his side light proceeds from the sun separate the coarse wool

Bribe

a secret commission from the other side to a negotiation justifies the dismissal of the agent receiving it, Boston Deep Sea Fishery v. Ansell, (1888) 39 Ch D 339. The bribery of an agent avoids a contract:

Commission Agent or Broker

works a forfeiture of the agent's legal commission, Andrews v. Ramsay, 1903 (2) KB 635, and justifies dismissal, Boston Deep Sea Fishing Co. v. Ansell, (1888) 39 Ch D 339. See also the Prevention of Corruption Acts,

Perpetuity

Perpetuity, concerns rights of property only, and does not affect the making of contracts, which do not create rights of property, Ram Baran Prasad v. Ram Mohit Hazara, AIR 1967 SC 744: (1967) 1 SCR 293....

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