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inchoate 1 a : not yet made complete, certain, or specific : not perfected see also inchoate lien at lien b : not yet transformed into actual use or possession [until an employee has earned his retirement pay…[it] is but an right "Peterson v. Fire & Police Pension Ass'n, 759 P.2d 720 (1988)"] 2 : of or relating to a crime (as attempt, solicitation, or conspiracy) which consists of acts that are preliminary to another crime and that are in themselves criminal compare choate ...
inchoate lien
inchoate lien see lien ...
Inchoate
Inchoate, begun, but not completed. By the Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, s. 20, 'a simple signature on a blank stamped paper,' delivered by the signer in order that it may be converted into a bill, 'operates as a prima facie authority to fill it up as a complete bill for any amount the stamp will cover, using the signature for that of the drawer, or the acceptor, or an indorser.'...
Inchoate right
Inchoate right, means (1) A right that has not fully developed, matured, or vested. (2) Patents. An inventor's right that has not yet vested into a property right because the patent application is pending, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 765...
choate
choate [back-formation from inchoate] : being complete and superior to subsequent liens see also choate lien at lien compare inchoate cho·ate·ness n ...
Jus ad rem
Jus ad rem, an inchoate and imperfect right; such as a parson promoted to a living acquires by nomina-tion and institution.Jus ad rem, means a right in specific property arising from another person's duty and valid only against that person; an inchoate or incomplete right to a thing, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 863....
Maritime lien
Maritime lien, is well defined to mean a claim or privilege upon a thing to be carried into effect by legal process, that process to be a proceeding in rem ...... This claim or privilege travels with the thing into whosoever possession it may come. It is inchoate from the moment the claim or privilege attaches, and when carried into effect by legal process by a proceeding in rem, relates back to the period when it first attached, Bold Buccbugh, The (1852) 7 Moo PCC 267: (1843-60) All ER Rep 125.A maritime lien is a claim which attaches to the res i.e., the ship, freight, or cargo. It may arise ex delicto, e.g., compensation for damage by collision, or ex contractu, for services rendered to the res; but it is strictly confined to services such as salvage, supply of necessaries to the ship, and seamen's wages, and the courts show no tendency to extend the privilege (see The Ripon City, 1897, P. 226). Thus for ordinary work done upon a ship, such as repairs, there will be no maritime lien...
impossibility
impossibility pl: -ties 1 : the quality or state of being impossible ;also : the affirmative defense that something (as performance) is impossible 2 : something impossible 3 : impossibility of performance in this entry fac·tu·al impossibility : impossibility based on factual circumstances ;specif : a partial defense to criminal liability based on the incompletion of an intended criminal act NOTE: Factual impossibility is not a complete defense and does allow prosecution for attempt or for another inchoate offense. For example, if the defendant constructed a bomb that failed to explode, factual impossibility would be a defense against murder charges, but not attempted murder. impossibility of per·for·mance 1 : a doctrine in contract law that a party may be released from liability for breach of contract for failing to perform an obligation that is rendered impossible by uncontrollable circumstances (as death or failure of the means of delivery) 2 : a defe...
lien
lien [Anglo-French, bond, obligation, literally, tie, band, from Old French, from Latin ligamen, from ligare to bind] : a charge or encumbrance upon property for the satisfaction of a debt or other duty that is created by agreement of the parties or esp. by operation of law ;specif : a security interest created esp. by a mortgage assessment lien : a lien that is on property benefiting from an improvement made by a municipality and that secures payment of the taxes assessed to pay for the improvement attachment lien : a lien acquired on property by a creditor upon levy of an attachment car·ri·er's lien : a lien against freight conferring on the carrier the right to retain the property until the amount due is paid charging lien : a lien attaching to a judgment or recovery awarded to a plaintiff and securing payment of the plaintiff's attorney's fees and expenses called also special lien choate lien : a lien that requires no further action to be made enforceable and th...
Inchoate
Recently or just begun beginning partially but not fully in existence or operation existing in its elements incomplete...
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