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Home Dictionary Name: helphelp
help Homebuyer Education Learning Program; an educational program from the FHA that counsels people about the home buying process; HELP covers topics like budgeting, finding a home, getting a loan, and home maintenance; in most cases, completion of the program may entitle the homebuyer to a reduced initial FHA mortgage insurance premium-from 2.25% to 1.75% of the home purchase price. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
self-help
self-help : the act of redressing or preventing a wrong by one's own actions rather than through legal proceedings NOTE: The Uniform Commercial Code permits creditors to repossess collateral by self-help if it can be done without a breach of the peace. ...
Help
To furnish with strength or means for the successful performance of any action or the attainment of any object to aid to assist as to help a man in his work to help one to remember the following infinitive is commonly used without to as ldquoHelp me scale yon balconyrdquo...
Helpful
Furnishing help giving aid assistant useful salutary...
Self-help
Self-help, means an attempt to redress a perceived wrong by one's own action rather than through the normal legal procession, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1364....
Helpless
Destitute of help or strength unable to help or defend ones self needing help feeble weak as a helpless infant...
Opitulation
The act of helping or aiding help...
Jamaican switch
Jamaican switch, means an illegal scheme whereby one conspirator convinces the victim of a need for help in handling a large sum of money, usu. by claiming to be an unsophisticated foreigner and promises to share part of the money with the victim or asks the victim for help in finding a suitable charity to donate to, at which time the other conspirator appears and promises to assist if both the victim and first conspirator provide good-faith money, the intent being for the two conspirators to leave with all the money, including the victim's, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 839....
Preferred
Preferred, 'preferred' is a word of dual import; its semantics depend on the scheme and the context; its import must help, not hamper, the object of the enactment even if liberty win language may be necessary. Black's Law Dictionary gives the following meaning: PREFER: To bring before; to prosecute; to try to proceed with. Thus, preferring an indictment signifies prosecuting or trying an indictment. To give advantage, priority, or privilege; to select for first payment, as to prefer one creditor over others. Thus it may mean 'prosecute' or effectively pursue a proceeding or merely institute it. Purposefully interpreted, pre-ferring an appeal mean more than formally filing it but effectively pursuing it, Commissioner of Income Tax v. B.N. Bhattacharjee, AIR 1979 SC 1725 (1734): (1979) 4 SCC 121: (1979) 3 SCR 1133.Preferred, is a word of dual import; its semantics depend upon the scheme and the content; its import must help, not hamper, the object of the enactment even if liberty with la...
abatement
abatement 1 : the act or process of abating or the state of being abated [challenged the of her bequest] [ of a private nuisance by self-help "W. L. Prosser and W. P. Keeton"] 2 : an amount abated : deduction ;esp : a deduction from the full amount of a tax in abatement : subject to termination because of a formal or procedural defect [there shall be no reversal in the Supreme Court…for error in ruling upon matters in abatement "U.S. Code"] ...
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