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Considerance

Act of considering consideration

Commutation ticket

A ticket for transportation at a reduced rate in consideration of some special circumstance as increase of travel specif a ticket for a certain number of or for

Buy

To acquire the ownership of property by giving an accepted price or consideration therefor or by agreeing to do so to acquire by the payment of a price or value to

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Black box

instrument or part of an instrument whose function is defined but which is treated as a unit without consideration of the internal mechanisms broadly any device whose internal workings are considered as incomprehensible or mysterious by the

will

death by one of the parties [a mutual will executed in connection with an agreement based on sufficient consideration is both contractual and testamentary in nature "Pruss v. Pruss, 514 N.W.2d 335 (1994)"] called also counter will

Deliberation

act of deliberating or of weighing and examining the reasons for and against a choice or measure careful consideration mature reflection

waste

purpose or for less than what a person of ordinary sound business judgment would consider to be adequate consideration [the essence of a claim of of corporate assets is the diversion of corporate assets for improper or

volunteer

debt of another and is denied reimbursement from subrogation 2 : one who receives property without giving valuable consideration

verdict

a jury is unable to reach or has not yet reached agreement on all of the offenses under consideration NOTE: The acceptance of partial verdicts before a jury is finished with deliberations may interfere with the deliberative

use

attributes back to a grantor when there is no person declared to receive it or no transfer of consideration shift·ing use : a use that is transferred or takes effect in derogation of some estate upon the

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