Estate Planning - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: estate planningestate planning
estate planning : the arranging for the disposition and management of one's estate at death through the use of wills, trusts, insurance policies, and other devices ...
estate planner
estate planner : a professional or business that provides advice regarding estate planning and sometimes prepares necessary legal documents ...
Land use planning
Land use planning, means the deliberate, systematic development of real estate through methods such as zoning, environmental-impact studies, and the like. Also termed urban planning, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 884....
Plan
Plan. In the (English) Copyright Act, 1911, 'literary work' includes 'plans' (s. 35); and see also as to plans, s. 2, sub-s. (1) (ii). see COPYRIGHT. Under various Acts, plans have to be deposited with local authorities for various purposes. If the local authority neglects to pass the plans the remedy is by mandamus, Davis v. Bromley Corporation, (1908) 1 KB 170 and R. v. Cambrdige Corporation, (1922) 1 KB 250. As to a purchaser's right to have the property conveyed to him by reference to a plan on his conveyance, see Re Sansom, (1910) 1 Ch 741; Re Sparrow, ib. 2 Ch 60, and as to maps as evidence, Storey v. Eastborune R.D.C., (1927) 1 Ch 367.Under the Land Registration Act, 1925, s. 76, land may be described by description on a map or plan. For the practice of the Land Registry, consult The Land Registry General Map, by W.S. Tratman, and LR Rules, 272-285.As to the property in plans, see ARCHITECT.In common acceptation mean 'a drawing or diagram made by projections on a horizontal plan...
Planning
Planning, as that term is used in connection with community development is a generic term, rather than a word of art, and has no fixed meaning. Broadly speaking, however, the term connotes the systematic development of a community or an area with particular reference to the location, character, and extent of streets, squares, and parks, and to kindred mapping and charting, American Jurisprudence, 2nd (Vol. 82, at p. 388).Planning, connotes a systematic development contrived to promote the common interest in matters, embraced within the police power, with particular reference to the localities, character, and extent of streets, squares, parks, and to kindred mapping and charting, Manaklal Chottebai v. M.G. Makwana, (1968) 1 SCJ 379.Laws dealing with development planning are indis-pensable to sanitation and healthy urbanization. Development planning comprehensively takes care of statutory, manual, administrative and land-use laws hand in hand with architectural creativity. In the words o...
company
company pl: -nies : an association of persons for carrying on a commercial or industrial enterprise compare corporation, partnership finance company : a company that makes usually small short-term loans to individuals growth company : a company that grows at a greater rate than the economy as a whole and that usually directs a relatively high proportion of income back into the business holding company : a company whose sole function is to own and control other companies investment company : a company that earns income solely or primarily by holding and investing in securities issued by other companies or by government agencies joint-stock company : a business organization whose capital is represented by shares owned by stockholders each of whom is personally liable for the company's debts limited liability company : an unincorporated company formed under applicable state statute whose members cannot be held liable for the acts, debts, or obligations of the company and that ma...
fund
fund 1 : a sum of money or other resources whose principal or interest is set aside for a specific objective cli·ent security fund : a fund established by each state to compensate clients for losses suffered due to their attorneys' misappropriation of funds common trust fund : an in-house trust fund established by a bank trust department to pool the assets of many small trusts for greater diversification in investing executor fund : a fund established in estate planning to provide for the payment of final expenses by an executor joint wel·fare fund : a fund that is established by collective bargaining to provide health and welfare benefits to employees and that is jointly administered by representatives of labor and management paid-in fund : a reserve cash fund in lieu of a capital stock account set up by mutual insurance companies to cover unforeseen losses sink·ing fund : a fund set up and accumulated by regular deposits for paying off the principal on a debt...
defined benefit plan
defined benefit plan : a pension plan in which the amount of benefits paid to an employee after retirement is fixed in advance in accordance with a formula given in the plan ...
HR-10 plan
HR-10 plan [from H.R. 10, the 1965 U.S. House of Representatives bill that established the plan] : keogh plan ...
planned unit development (pud)
planned unit development (pud) a development that is planned, and constructed as one entity. Generally, there are common features in the homes or lots governed by covenants attached to the deed. Most planned developments have common land and facilities owned and managed by the owner's or neighborhood association. Homeowners usually are required to participate in the association via a payment of annual dues. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
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