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abandon
[ one's child] 3 : to renounce one's obligations and rights under [ a contract] 4 : to fail purposely to bring to completion or fruition [ a crime] [ a lawsuit]
Trade Boards
the minimum rates established, and such rates are obligatory on employers, who are placed under penalties if they fail to pay in accordance with such rates. s. 11 gives the constitution and proceedings of Trade Boards under
Defail
To cause to fail
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Residuary devisee
as shall be comprised or intended to be comprised in any devise in such will contained, which shall fail or be void by reason of the death of the devisee in the lifetime of the testator, or
Guaranty, or Guarantee
for the payment of a debt or the performance of a duty by another, in case he should fail to perform his engagement. An offer to guarantee until it be accepted is not binding. At Common Law
Action of abstracted multures
those who are thirled to a mill, i.e., bound to grind their corn at a certain mill, and fail to do so.
Bishop
of 25 Hen. 8, c. 20, by a letter-missive, addressed to the dean and chapter; and if they fail to make election in twelve days, the king, by letters-patent, may nominate whom he pleases. A bishop is
Repugnancy
to the same subject in the concurrent list, the Union law will prevail and the State law will fail to the extent of repugnancy; however, if the State law has been assented to by the President, it
Concerned with the advancement of religion, education or social welfare
with object which are also the concern of charitable organizations but which for some reason or other may fail to come under the definition of 'charitable purpose' in the strictly legal sense, Phonographic Performance Ltd. v. South
Corporation or body politic
artificial person es-tablished for preserving in perpetual succession certain rights, which being conferred on natural persons only would fail in process of time. It is either aggegate, consisting of many members, or sole, consisting of one person
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