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Doing nothing disinclined to work or exertion inactive idle lazy of people as a do nothing policy...
Delivery of a Deed
Delivery of a Deed, a requisite to a good deed.The delivery may be effected either by acts or by words, i.e., by doing something and saying nothing, as merely handing it to the grantee or his agent; or by saying something and doing nothing, as 'I deliver this writing as my act and deed,' or language of a similar import; or by doing and saying something. See Shep. Touch. P. 57.Delivery is of two kinds:--(a) Absolute, when the execution perfects the deed, and nothing is left to be done; or(b) Conditional, which is the handing of the writing to some third person to be delivered by him as the act and deed of the grantor, when certain specified conditions shall be performed. Until the conditions are performed the instrument is called an escrow, scrowl, or writing. See ESCROW.A deed takes effect only from delivery; for if the date be false or impossible, the delivery ascertains the time of it, 2 Bl. Com. 307.Deeds take precedence according to the time of their delivery, but their effect may ...
Gift
Gift. The old text-writers made a gift (donatio) a distinct species of deed, and describe it as a conveyance applicable to the creation of an estate-tail; while a feoffment they strictly confine to the creation of a fee simple estate. The operative verb was 'give,' which no longer implies any covenant in law (Real Property Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 106), s. 4), replaced by the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 59(2), and the deed required livery of seisin. It is obsolete. See Jac. Law Dict.A gift is now understood to mean a mere voluntary assurance or transfer of property without any consideration being given for it. Such a transaction is apt to be very jealously scrutinized in a Court of Equity, and will be set aside on proof of undue influence (see that title), or of a fiduciary relationship of the donee to the donor, see Huguenin v. Baseley, (1806-8) 14 Ves 273; W. & T. L.C.; Morley v. Loughman, (1893) 1 Ch 736 (757); Lyon v. Home, (1868) LR 6 Eq 655. In the absence of any such objectio...
Nihil aliud potest rex quam quod de jure potest
Nihil aliud potest rex quam quod de jure potest [Lat.], the king can do nothing other than what he can do by law....
Do naught
A lazy good for nothing fellow...
faineant
Doing nothing shiftless disinclined to work or exertion...
Neer do well
A person who never does or fares well a good for nothing...
Quod dubitas, ne feceris
Quod dubitas, ne feceris (Hale P.C. 300), where you doubt, do nothing....
do
do did done do·ing does vt 1 : perform execute 2 : commit [did this act of cruelty] verbal auxiliary used with the infinitive without to to form present and past tenses in legal and parliamentary language [ hereby bequeath] do business : to be engaged in business activities (as soliciting sales) ;specif : to engage in activities sufficient to subject a foreign company to the personal jurisdiction of a state [was sufficient to constitute doing business in the state "International Shoe Co. v. Washington, 326 U.S. 310 (1945)"] see also doing business statute ...
Dos agrave dos
Back to back as to sit dos agrave dos in a dogcart to dance dos agrave dos or so that two dancers move forward and pass back to back...
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