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S.J.D.

S.J.D. [New Latin scientiae juridicae doctor] doctor of juridical science, doctor of the science of law

J.D.

J.D. juris doctor

J.S.D.

J.S.D. [New Latin juris scientiae doctor] doctor of juridical science; doctor of the science of law

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condition

vt conditioned conditioning : to make subject to conditions [the sale…was orally conditioned upon approval of the patent "j. d. calamari and j. m. perillo"]

juris doctor

juris doctor often cap J&D [New Latin, doctor of law] : the lowest degree conferred by a law school

discharge

: to render (an instrument) no longer enforceable [a formal instrument…may be discharged by either cancellation or surrender "J. D. Calamari and J. M. Perillo"] b : to release (a debtor in bankruptcy) from liability for his or

Electoral roll

Assembly Constituencies. No separate roll is prepared for any Parliamentary Constituency except for those in the State of J&K and the Union Territories not having a legislature, Law of Elections, P.D.T. Achary, 2004, p. 7. Is revised

fatal

(as a contract) invalid or unenforceable [there is a indefiniteness with the result that the agreement is void "J. D. Calamari and J. M. Perillo"] fa·tal·ly adv

Corporation or body politic

it is composed or something wholly different from the corporation itself, for a corporation is a legal person just as much as an individual. A corporation aggregate can express its will be deed under a common seal. … on Libel). The several members of a corporation and their successors constitute but one person in law. The duty of a corporation is to answer the ends of its institution-to enforce which it maybe visited: if spiritual,

defeasible

subject to or capable of being annulled or made void [a interest] [his rights are not by agreement "J. D. Calamari and J. M. Perillo"]

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