Divestible - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: divestibledivest
divest [Anglo-French devestir, literally, to undress, from Old French desvestir, from de(s)-, prefix marking reversal + vestir to dress, from Latin vestire] : to deprive or dispossess (oneself) of property through divestiture di·vest·ment n ...
Divestible
Capable of being divested...
Divestment
The act of divesting...
Devest, or divest
Devest, or divest [fr. de and vestis, Lat.], to deprive, to take away; opposite to invest, which is to deliver possession of anything to another....
Divest
Divest. See DEVEST....
Denude
To divest of all covering to make bare or naked to strip to divest as to denude one of clothing or lands the hurricane denuded the trees...
Disrobe
To divest of a robe to undress figuratively to strip of covering to divest of that which clothes or decorates as autumn disrobes the fields of verdure...
Alien
Alien [fr. alienigena, alibi natus, Lat.], a person not born within His Majesty's dominions and allegiance (q.v.). See definitions in the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Acts, 1914 and 1933, infra. At common law aliens were subject to very many disqualifications, the nature of which is shown by the (English) Act of 1844, 7 & 8 Vict. c. 66, which greatly relaxed the law in their favour. It provided, inter alia, that every person born of a British mother should be capable of holding real or personal estate; that alien friends might hold every species of personal property except chattels real; that subjects of a friendly power might hold lands, etc., for the purposes of residence or business for a term not exceeding twenty-one years; and it also provided for aliens becoming naturalized.Alien, (UK) is a person who is neither a Common-wealth citizen nor a British protected person nor a citizen of the Republic of Ireland. Aliens therefore include both persons having the nationality ...
Consideration
Consideration. Any act of the promisee (the person claiming the benefit of an obligation) from which the promisor (the person burdened with the obligation) or a stranger derives a benefit or advantage, or any labour detriment or inconvenience sustained or suffered by the promisee at the request, express or implied, of the promisor. See Laythoarp v. Bryant, 3 Scott 250; 2 Wms. Saund 137 h; Currie v. Misa, (1875) LR 10 Exch 153.Consideration is one of the facts which the courts require as evidence of intention, (a) that a person intends his promise to be binding on him, or (b) that he intends to divest himself of a beneficial interest in property. In its widest sense consideration is the price, motive or inducement for a promise or for a transfer of property from one person to another. The nature or quality of the consideration which will be sufficient for these purposes varies with the nature of the transaction and in the absence of consideration the Courts will, except in the case of s...
Reading-in
Reading-in. The title of a person instituted or licensed to any benefice with cure of souls or perpetual curacy will be divested unless be publicly read in the church of the benefice, on the first Lord's-day on which he officiates, the Thirty-nine Articles, with a declaration of his assent thereto, and to the Book of Common Prayer, Clerical Subscription Act, 1865 (28 & 29 Vict. c. 122), s. 7.. The title of a person instituted or licensed to any benefice with cure of souls or perpetual curacy will be divested unless be publicly read in the church of the benefice, on the first Lord's-day on which he officiates, the Thirty-nine Articles, with a declaration of his assent thereto, and to the Book of Common Prayer, Clerical Subscription Act, 1865 (28 & 29 Vict. c. 122), s. 7....
- << Prev.
- Next >>
Sign-up to get more results
Unlock complete result pages and premium legal research features.
Start Free Trial