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party
party pl: parties 1 a : one (as a person, group, or entity) constituting alone or with others one of the sides of a proceeding, transaction, or agreement [the parties to a contract] [a person who signed the instrument as a to the instrument "Uniform Commercial Code"] accommodated party : a party to an instrument for whose benefit an accommodation party signs and incurs liability on the instrument : a party for whose benefit an accommodation is made accommodation party : a party who signs and thereby incurs liability on an instrument that is issued for value and given for the benefit of an accommodated party secured party : a party holding a security interest in another's property third party : a person other than the principals [insurance against injury to a third party] b : one (as an individual, firm, or corporation) that constitutes the plaintiff or defendant in an action ;also : one so involved in the prosecution or defense of a judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding as t...
innocence
innocence : freedom from fault or guilt under the law: as a : the state of not being guilty of a particular crime or offense compare guilt b : the state of not being guilty of an act that constitutes a ground for divorce c : ignorance on the part of a party to a transaction of facts that would lead a person of ordinary prudence to make inquiries ...
Marriage settlement
Marriage settlement, an arrangement made before marriage, and in consideration of it (the highest consideration known to the law), whereby real or personal property is settled for the benefit of the husband and wife and the issue of the marriage. There is an express saving for such a settlement in s. 19 of the (English) Married Women's Property Act, 1882, and see the (English) Married Women's Property Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 1), invalidating a settlement made by a female infant unless confirmed after attaining 21, but without prejudice to settlements under the Infants Settlement Act, 1855 (see post, MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY).Although the policy of the land legislation of 1924 was to assimilate the law of real property to that of personalty as far as possible, marriage settlements of land (not being effected by way of trust for sale), and if providing for infant or for a succession of interests in land or charging land (but in this case subject to the (English) Law of Property Amendment...
innocent spouse
innocent spouse : a spouse who may be relieved of liability for taxes on an amount of income that the other spouse failed to include on a joint return filed with the Internal Revenue Service NOTE: In order to be relieved of tax liability, the innocent spouse must prove that the other spouse omitted the amount of income, that he or she did not know and had no reason to know that the income had been omitted, and that it is unfair under the circumstances to hold the innocent spouse liable. ...
Innocent spouse
Innocent spouse, means a spouse who may be relived of liability for taxes on income that the other spouse did not include on a joint tax return. The innocent spouse must prove that the other spouse did not know and had no reason to know of the omission, and that it would be unfair under the circumstances to hold the innocent spouse liable, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 793....
Adultery
Adultery [ad. Lat., and alter, another person], anciently termed Advowtry (quasi ad alterius thorum). The sin of incontinence between two married persons, or it may be where only one of them is married, in which case it may be called single adultery to distinguish it from the other, which has sometimes been called double.By the (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857, which created a Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes (superseding the Ecclesiastical Court) which would grant to the innocent party a divorce a mensa et thoro on the ground of the other's adultery, a husband could obtain a dissolution of his marriage (before that Act, only obtainable and not infrequently obtained by a private Act of Parliament) upon the ground of his wife's adultery, and a wife could obtain a judicial separation on the ground of her husband's adultery, or a dissolution of marriage on the ground of his adultery coupled with cruelty or desertion or bigamy, or of his incestuous adultery, provided there be...
Delivery order
Delivery order, a delivery order is an order by the owner of goods directing the person who holds them on his behalf to deliver them to the person named in the order, Jaggilal K. Pratapmal Rameshwar, AIR 1978 SC 389 (396). [Sale of Goods Act, 1930, s. 2(4)]--A writing directed to the bailee of goods mentioned in the order requesting him to deliver over the goods to the person named in the order. Such an order is a 'document of title' within the (English) Factors Act, 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 45), s. 1 (4), and the (English) Sale of Goods Act, 1893 (56 & 57 Vict.c. 71), s. 62(1). See Chitty's Statutes, tits. 'Factors' and 'Goods.' As to the effect on innocent parties of a delivery order which is fradulent, see Union Credit Bank v. Mersey Docks, (1899) 2 QB 205; Farquharson Bros. v. King, 1902 AC 325....
innocent
innocent : characterized by innocence ...
Innocent conveyances
Innocent conveyances, a covenant to stand seized; a bargain and sale; and release; so called because, since they convey the actual possession by construction of law only, they do not confer a larger estate in property than the person conveying possesses, and therefore, if a greater interest be conveyed by these deeds than a person has, they are only void, pro tanto, for the excess. But a feoffment of such larger estate was a tortious conveyance, and therefore, under such circumstances, would have been void altogether, and produced a forfeiture. But by the 4th section of the Real Property Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 106), a feoffment made after October 1st, 1845, shall not have any tortuous operation. It is, therefore, an innocent conveyance....
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