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Catching bargain

Catching bargain, a purchase from an expectant heir, for an inadequate consideration. See Expectant Heir.

Bond

Bond [fr. binda, band, bunden, A. S., to bind], a written acknowledgement or binding of a debt under seal. See DEED. No technical form of words is necessary to constitute a bond; see Gerrard v. Clowes,...

Annual value

Annual value, annual rent at which the building may be expected to let, D.G. Gouse & Co. (Agents) Pvt. Ltd. v. State of Kerala, (1980) 2 SCC 410: AIR 1980 SC 271 (280). Means, in relation...

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Abeyance, or Abbayance

Abeyance, or Abbayance [fr. abayer, Fr., to expect, to look at anything with open mouth], in expectation, remembrance, and contemplation of law. The word abeyance has been compared to what the civilians call hereditas jacens; for,...

Hopeful

Full of hope or agreeable expectation inclined to hope expectant

unforeseeable

unforeseeable : not capable of being reasonably anticipated or expected : such that a person of ordinary prudence would not expect to occur or exist under the circumstances [an misuse] [an injury] un·fore·see·abil·i·ty [-sē-ə-bi-lə-tē] n

Caveat

Caveat (let him take heed), a warning or caution. If a person desired to stop the enrolment for decree in Chancery, in order to present a petition of appeal to the Lord Chancellor, he entered a...

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...

Knew to be likely to be committed

Knew to be likely to be committed, the expression 'knew to be likely to be committed' imports at least an expectation founded upon facts known to the members of the assembly that an offence of a...

Hypothetical tenant

Hypothetical tenant, a term used in valuations for rating denoting the ideal or imaginary person who would take premises at an average of the rents likely to be paid by all persons who could be regarded...

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