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pierce
pierce pierced pierc·ing : to see through the usually misleading or false appearance of [the object of summary judgment is to the pleadings and allow a judgment on the merits "J. H. Friedenthal et al."] [the Internal Revenue Service may attempt to the plain meaning of the agreement "W. M. McGovern, Jr. et al."] pierce the corporate veil : to disregard the corporate entity and reach the personal assets of the corporation's controlling parties : hold the controlling parties (as officers or shareholders) of a corporation personally liable for wrongful acts or debts of the corporation [a…creditor in New York cannot pierce the corporate veil solely on grounds of inadequate capitalization "R. C. Clark"] compare corporate immunity at immunity NOTE: An action to pierce the corporate veil is usually grounded on the corporation's being an instrumentality or alter ego of the officers or shareholders and on some misuse (as fraud) of the officers' or shareholders' control over the...
abeyance
abeyance [Middle French abeance expectation (of a title or claimant), from abaer to expect, from a-, prefix stressing result + baer to gape, aim at] 1 : a lapse in the succession of property during which there is no person in whom title to the property is vested usually used with in [the estate was in ] 2 : temporary inactivity or suppression : cessation or suspension for a period of time usually used with in or into [to hold the entry of summary judgment in "J. H. Friedenthal et al."] ...
account
account 1 a : a record of debit and credit entries to cover transactions involving a particular item (as cash or notes receivable) or a particular person or concern b : a statement of transactions during a fiscal period showing the resulting balance sometimes used in the pl. [trustees filed annual s as required by statute "W. M. McGovern, Jr. et al."] 2 : a periodically rendered reckoning (as one listing charged purchases and credits) 3 : a sum of money or its equivalent deposited in the common cash of a bank and subject to withdrawal at the option of the depositor 4 : a right under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code to payment for goods or services which is not contained in an instrument or chattel paper and that may or may not have been earned by performance vi : to give a financial account [a duty to ] ...
accumulation
accumulation : increase or growth by addition esp. when continuous or repeated ;specif : an increase in the amount of a fund or property by the continuous addition to it of the income or interest it generates [to treat a stock dividend as principal when local law classifies it as income may be deemed an "W. M. McGovern, Jr. et al."] see also accumulation trust at trust NOTE: Because they prevent the enjoyment and benefit of wealth, accumulations are deemed contrary to public policy. A provision in a will for an accumulation will be invalidated if found to be unreasonable by the court. ...
aggregate
aggregate : taken as a total [ liability] [a-grə-gāt] vb -gat·ed -gat·ing vt 1 : to combine or gather into a whole [class members may their individual claims] compare join 2 : to amount to [an award aggregating $100,000] vi : to form an aggregate [they may not if their claims are regarded as “separate and distinct” "J. M. Landers et al."] [a-grə-gət] n 1 : total amount [may sue in federal court if the of the claims exceeds $50,000] 2 : a whole made up of individual units [the of operative facts] ...
appoint
appoint 1 : to name officially to a position [ed to the agency's top post] [ed conservator of the estate] 2 : to determine the distribution of (property) by exercising the authority granted by a power of appointment [a general power to the corpus of a trust "W. M. McGovern, Jr. et al."] vi : to exercise a power of appointment see also power of appointment ap·point·ive [ə-pȯin-tiv] adj ap·point·ment n ...
bind
bind bound [band] bind·ing 1 a : to make responsible for an obligation (as under a contract) [agents have the power to the insurer "R. I. Mehr"] b : to burden with an obligation [prevented married women from ing their property "J. H. Friedenthal et al."] 2 : to exert control over : constrain by legal authority [this court is bound by precedent] 3 : to bring (an insurance policy) into effect by an oral communication or a binder ...
causa mortis
causa mortis [Latin mortis causa in contemplation of death] : made or done in contemplation of one's impending death [rejected his claim that the gift was causa mortis "W. M. McGovern, Jr. et al."] usually used following the term it modifies see also gift causa mortis at gift compare inter vivos ...
cause of action
cause of action 1 : the grounds (as violation of a right) that entitle a plaintiff to bring a suit [an amended pleading reiterating a cause of action for lost profits "J. H. Friedenthal et al."] ;also : the part of a suit brought on those grounds [removed the cause of action to the district court] 2 : right of action [the court, led by Justice Brennan, said Congress intended to provide a private cause of action "National Law Journal"] ...
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