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Home Dictionary Name: four posterFour poster
A large bedstead with tall posts at the corners to support a canopy or curtains...
posterity
posterity 1 : all of the lineal descendants of a person 2 : all future generations ...
Posterity
The race that proceeds from a progenitor offspring to the furthest generation the aggregate number of persons who are descended from an ancestor of a generation descendants contrasted with ancestry as the posterity of Abraham...
Posterity
Posterity, succeeding generations, descendants, opposed to ancestry....
four-month rule
four-month rule : a rule requiring that an action be taken within four months: as a : a rule in some states requiring that a defendant be tried within four months of the arrest, charge, or arraignment b : a rule set out in section 9-103(1)(d) of the Uniform Commercial Code that provides a secured creditor four months to perfect a security interest again in the state to which the collateral perfected previously in another state has been moved ...
Tenant is in arrears of rent for not less than four months
Tenant is in arrears of rent for not less than four months, the expression 'the tenant is in arrears of rent for not less than four months' may suggest that the tenant is in arrears of rent for one or any number of months and that the arrears have fallen due four months back meaning thereby that within four months there was no attempt on the part of the tenant to pay up the arrears and cure the default, Har Charan Singh v. Shiv Rani, AIR 1981 SC 1284 (1291): (1981) 2 SCC 535....
All Fours
All Fours, a case agreeing in all its circumstances with another case is sometimes said to be 'on all fours' with it. Nullum simile est idem, nisi quatuor pedibus currit, Co. Litt. 3. (Nothing similar is the same, unless it runs on all fours with it.)...
Four seas
Four seas. These are (1) The Atlantic, which comprises the Irish Sea and St. George's Channel; (2) The North Sea; (3) The German Ocean; and (4) The English Channel. See Woolrych on Waters. Before the reign of James the First, the four seas were understood with more restriction, the Scotch seas being excluded. The expression 'within the four seas,' 'intra quatuor maria,' means 'within the kingdome of England, and the dominions of the same kingdome.'-Co. Litt. 107 a....
Four-corners
Four-corners, of an instrument; that which is contained on the face of a deed, without any aid from knowledge of the circumstances under which it is made, is said to be 'within its four corners,' because every deed is still supposed to be written on one entire skin, and so tohave but four corners.The face of a written instrument, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 667....
four corners
four corners : the contents of a document as interpreted without reference to or consideration of outside information : the face of a document [any evidence offered…must appear within the four corners of the will "Crump's Estate v. Freeman, 614 P.2d 1096 (1980)"] ...
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