Leaning - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: leaning Page 1 of about 69 results ( seconds)Drince-lean, or drink-lean
Drince-lean, or drink-lean, a contribution from tenants in the time of the Saxons towards a potation, or ale provided to entertain the lord or his steward....
Leaning
The act or state of inclining inclination tendency as a leaning towards Calvinism...
Lean
Lean, means (1) to incline or tend in opinion or preference. A court is sometimes said to 'lean against' the position of one of the advocates before it, meaning that the court regards the advocate's position disfavorably; (2) to yield; to submit, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 897....
Leanness
The condition or quality of being lean...
Emacerate
To make lean or to become lean to emaciate...
Recumbence
The act of leaning resting or reclining the state of being recumbent...
Discubitory
Leaning fitted for a reclining posture...
Inclinatory
Having the quality of leaning or inclining as the inclinatory needle...
Erect
Upright or having a vertical position not inverted not leaning or bent not prone as to stand erect...
Satisfaction
Satisfaction, legal compensation; the recompense for an injury done, or the payment of money due and owing. See ACCORD.The giving of something with the intention, express or implied, that it is to extinguish some existing legal or moral obligation, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1343.The doctrine of satisfaction of legacies, portions, and debts means the gift of a thing with the intention, either expressed or implied, that it is to be taken either wholly or partly in extinguishment of some prior claim or demand. Of course, it is open to a donor expressly to provide that his subsequent gift shall be a satisfaction of a prior demand, so as to prevent such donee from claiming both. With regard to implied or presumable satisfactions, they have been divided in to the three following classes:-(1) The satisfaction of legacies by portions, otherwise called the ademption of legacies. Upon this subject Lord Eldon laid down in Ex parte Pye, (1811) 18 Ves. 140; 2 W. & T.L.C., that 'where a p...
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