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Home Dictionary Name: document Page: 2Negotiable multimodal transport document
Negotiable multimodal transport document, means a multimodal transport document which is--(i) made out to order or to bearer; or(ii) made out to order and is transferable by endorsement; or(iii) made out to bearer and is transferable without endorsement. [Multimodal Transportation of Goods Act, 1993 (28 of 1993), s. 2 (n)]...
Foreign documents
Foreign documents. The admissibility in evidence in the United Kingdom of entries contained in public registers in other countries is governed by the Evidence (Foreign Dominions and Colonial) Documents Act, 1923 (24 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 4). Orders in Council may be made under s. 1 of the Act recognizing public registers in other countries (which expression includes any British Colony or Protectorate) if desirable in the interests of reciprocity....
requests for production of documents
requests for production of documents a form of discovery in which one party requests that another make certain documents and other objects available for inspection and copying. Source: Federal Judicial Center ...
Affidavit of documents
Affidavit of documents, an affidavit by a party against whom an order for discovery has been made specifying all the documents material to the matters in dispute in the action which are or have been in his possession are power. See DISCOVERY....
document recording
document recording after closing on a loan, certain documents are filed and made public record. Discharges for the prior mortgage holder are filed first. Then the deed is filed with the new owner's and mortgage company's names. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
Bill of lading or any similar document of title
Bill of lading or any similar document of title, might be to order, or to bearer, or to a person named therein French Code of Commerce, Article 281....
document
document 1 : a writing (as a deed or lease) conveying information see also instrument 2 a : something (as a writing, photograph, or recording) that may be used as evidence b : an official paper (as a license) relied on as the basis, proof, or support of something (as a right or privilege) [dÄ -kyə-ment] vt 1 a : to furnish documentary evidence of b : to provide with exact references to authoritative supporting information 2 : to furnish (as a ship) with documents (as ship's papers) ...
Judicial documents
Judicial documents, proceedings relating to litiga-tion. They are divided into: (1) judgments, decrees, and verdicts; (2) depositions, examinations, and inquisitions taken in the course of a legal process; (3) writs, warrants, pleadings, etc., which are incident to any judicial proceedings, See 1 Stark. Evid. 252....
Forgery
Forgery [fr. forger, Fr.; or fingo, Lat.], the crimen falsi, or the false making or alteration of an instrument, which purports on the face of it to be good and valid for the purposes for which it was created, with a design to defraud. The forged instrument must be false in itself. The mere subscribing a note, given as the party's own, by a fictitious name, was held not to be forgery, Reg. v. Martin, (1879) 5 QBD 34.The act of fraudulently making a false document or altering a real one to be used as if genuine, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 661.Forgery at Common Law was a misdemeanour but most forgeries have been made felony by statute. Many of these statutes were consolidated by 11 Geo. 4 & 1 Wm. 4, c. 66, repealed and replaced by the Forgery Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 98), but the law now principally depends on the Forgery Act, 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. 5, c. 27, 'an Act to consolidate, simplify and amend the law relating to forgery and kindred offences.' It repeals such portions of s...
Record
Record, a memorial or remembrance; an authentic testimony in writing contained in rolls of parchment, and preserved in a Court of record. The public records of the kingdom are placed under the superintendence of the Master of the Rolls, and a Record Office established by the (English) Public Record Office Act, 1838 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 94). The (English) Public Record Office (commonly called the Rolls Office) is a large building in Chancery Lane, London, and was opened in 1902.There are three kinds of records, viz.: (1) judicial, as an attainder; (2) ministerial, on oath, being an office or inquisition found; (3) by way of conveyance, as a deed enrolled. As to ancient public records generally, see Hubback on Succession, pp. 607 et seq.The Record Offices of the Supreme Court are now merged in the Central Office there. See (English) R.S.C. Ord. LXI.Also the general name given to (a) pleadings and subsequent orders and recorded matters in an action (by R. S. C. 1883, Ord. XXXVI. R. 30, the par...
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