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Salience

The quality or condition of being salient a leaping a springing forward an assaulting

Scud

To move swiftly especially to move as if driven forward by something

Self asserting

asserting ones self or ones own rights or claims hence putting ones self forward in a confident or assuming manner

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Ad idem

Ad idem (at the same point), said of negotiating parties when they are quite agreed, so that a binding contract has been made between them. So long as any new term is put forward by one...

Adduce

Adduce, means to offer or put forward for consideration (something) as evidence or authority e.g. adduce the engineer's expert testimony, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 39.

Believe and hope

Believe and hope, 'to hope' means 'to want and expect'; to look forward with expectation and desire.' 'Hope' is a wishful feeling floating on nebulous foams projected into the unknown future, the term 'believe', in the...

Advow, or Avow, or Avouch

Advow, or Avow, or Avouch [under the feudal system, when the right of a tenant was impugned, he had to call upon his lord to come forward and defend his right. This, in the Latin of...

Back title letter

Back title letter, means a letter from a title insurer advising an attorney of the condition of title to land as of a certain date. With this information, the attorney can begin examining the title from...

Clarendon, constitutions of, assize of

Clarendon, constitutions of, assize of. At a great council held at Clarendon, in Wiltshire, A.D. 1164, in the tenth year of the reign of Henry II., a code of laws was brought forward by the king,...

Bill of Lading

Bill of Lading, a memorandum signed by masters of ships, in their capacity of carriers, acknowledging the receipt of merchants' goods, of which there are usually three parts-one kept by the consignor, one sent to the...

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