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Illegal, incorrect or irregular decree and void decree
a nullity. Validity of such decree or order can be challenged at any stage, even in execution or collateral proceedings. All irregular or wrong decrees or orders are not necessarily null and void. An erroneous or illegal
Guarantee
profits of an undertaking falling short of a specified amount. [Constitution of India, Art. 366(13)] Guarantee, is in collateral engagement to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another person, a promise to another as debtor
Extinguishment
Extinguishment, the annihilation of a collateral interest, or the supersedure of one interest by another and greater interest in that out of which it
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Cousin
Cousin [fr. Cousin, Fr.; cugino, It.; consobrinus, Lat., whence cusdrin, susrin; sabrino, Sp.]. A cousin is any collateral relation except brothers and sistes, and their descendants, and the brothers and sisters of any ancestor. The child
Direct
Direct, an epithet for the line of ascendants and descendants in genealogical succession, opposed to collateral. Collateral relationship is relationship through another branch, as cousins, etc. of a judge, to give the rule of
Conditional fee
not certain to take place. The estates will then continue precisely in the same manner, as if no collateral event, giving to the estate a determinate character, had been annexed to it. A base-fee may arise in
margin
which expenses are usually met or profits derived 2 : the amount by which the market value of collateral is greater than the face value of a loan 3 a : cash or collateral deposited in a
res judicata
doctrine in civil litigation that requires and includes the barring of relitigation of settled matters under merger, bar, collateral estoppel, and direct estoppel : former adjudication compare bar estoppel by judgment at estoppel, merger b : a
collateralize
collateralize -ized -iz·ing 1 : to make (a loan) secure with collateral 2 : to use (as securities) for
estoppel
nor reliance or ignorance by the other party 2 a : a bar to the relitigation of issues collateral estoppel : estoppel by judgment barring the relitigation of issues litigated by the same parties on a different
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