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earnest money (deposit)

if the offer is rejected, or is forfeited if the buyer pulls out of the deal. During the contingency period the money may be returned to the buyer if the contingencies are not met to the buyer's

deposit (earnest money)

if the offer is rejected, or is forfeited if the buyer pulls out of the deal. During the contingency period the money may be returned to the buyer if the contingencies are not met to the buyer's

bond

promises to pay for financial loss caused by the bad behavior of an obligated person or by some contingency over which the person may have no control. appeal bond : a cost bond required by a rule

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remainder

same instrument compare future interest at interest, reversion charitable remainder : a remainder in favor of a charity contingent remainder : a remainder that is to take effect in favor of an unidentifiable person (as one not

aleatory

gambler, from aleator gambler, dice player, from alea, a dice game] : depending on an uncertain event or contingency as to both profit and loss [the nature of a lawyer's contingency fee arrangement]

Future uses

Future uses. See CONTINGENT USES

Lay off

SC 893: (1960) 3 SCR 371. It means the failure, refusal or inability of employer on account of contingencies mentioned in clause (kkk) of the Industrial Disputes Act, s. 2 to give employment to a workman whose

Law of Property Act, 1925 (English)

less than the fee or entire term, e.g., entailed estates, estates for life, in remainder whether vested or contingent, and married women's estates subject to a restraint upon anticipation (see SETTLED LAND settled land). (3) Legal estates

Honorary trustees

Honorary trustees, trustees to preserve contingent remainders, so called because they were bound, in honour only, to decide on the most proper and prudential

Heir

ancestor should die immediately, would be his heir, but whose right of inheritance may be defeated by the contingency of some nearer heir being born; as a brother or nephew, whose presumptive succession may be destroyed by

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