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Home Dictionary Name: letter perfectletter perfect
correct to the last detail especially being in or following the exact words as a letter perfect rendition of the soliloquy...
Perfection
The quality or state of being perfect or complete so that nothing requisite is wanting entire development consummate culture skill or moral excellence the highest attainable state or degree of excellence maturity as perfection in an art in a science or in a system perfection in form or degree fruits in perfection...
letter
letter 1 : a direct written statement addressed to an individual or organization ;broadly : an official communication see also counterletter determination letter : a letter from an administrative agency (as the Internal Revenue Service) usually in response to a request in which a determination, decision, or ruling (as whether an organization qualifies as charitable) is made information letter : a letter from an administrative agency usually in response to a request that provides information and esp. that simply calls attention to an interpretation or principle of law letter of intent : a letter in which the intention to enter into a formal agreement (as a contract) or to take some specified action is stated letter ro·ga·to·ry [-rō-gə-tȯr-ē] [probably partial translation of Medieval Latin littera rogatoria letter of request] : a formal written request by a court to a court in a foreign jurisdiction to summon and examine a witness in accordance...
perfect tender rule
perfect tender rule : a rule that permits a buyer to reject goods if they or the tender of delivery fail to conform to contract in any respect [the perfect tender rule is preserved to the extent of permitting a buyer to reject goods for any defects "Ramirez v. Autosport, 440 A.2d 1345 (1982)"] NOTE: The Uniform Commercial Code contains provisions for a seller's right to cure a nonconforming shipment that counteract the strictness of the perfect tender rule. ...
letter of credit
letter of credit :a document issued to a beneficiary at the request of the issuer's customer in which the issuer (as a bank) promises to honor a demand for payment by the beneficiary in order to satisfy or secure the customer's debt compare guaranty NOTE: A letter of credit is usu. requested by a buyer of merchandise (the issuer's customer) to be issued to the seller (the beneficiary) in order to secure the payment for the merchandise. In effect the letter of credit is considered to extend a line of credit or substitute the issuer's credit for the customer's. commercial letter of credit : a letter of credit which is used to satisfy payment for merchandise and which usually requires the beneficiary to present a draft and some documentary proof (as of shipment or receipt of the merchandise) when making a demand for payment irrevocable letter of credit : a letter of credit which the issuer cannot revoke or modify without the consent of the issuer's customer or the beneficiary stan...
Letters-patent, or letters overt
Letters-patent, or letters overt [fr. liter' patentes, Lat.], writings of the sovereign, sealed with the Great Seal of England, whereby a person or public company is enabled to do acts or enjoy privileges which he or it could not do or enjoy without such authority. They are so called because they are open with the seal affixed and ready to be shown for confirmation of the authority thereby given. Peers are sometimes created by letters-patent, and letters-patent of precedence were granted to barristers. By letters-patent aliens are made denizens, and especially new inventions are protected; hence the incorporeal chattel of patent-right.A 'patent-right' is a privilege granted by the Crown to the first inventor of any new contrivance in manufactures, that he alone shall be entitled, during a limited period, to make Articles according to his own invention--Statute of Monopolies, 21 Jac. 1, c. 3.To be the subject of a patent-right an article must be material and capable of manufacture, an i...
perfect
perfect : entirely without fault or defect: as a : satisfying all requirements [failed to make tender] b : free from any valid legal objection : valid and effective at law [having title to the property] compare imperfect [pər-fekt] vt : to complete or put in final conformity with the law: as a : to make (an appeal) ready for transfer to an appeals court by satisfying procedural requirements b : to put (one's security interest) in a position or status having priority over subsequently perfected security interests or unperfected security interests by taking statutorily prescribed steps to give notice esp. by filing a financing statement or taking possession of the collateral [was the first creditor to its security interest in the debtor's collateral, and, thus, was the first in priority for the collateral "Commercial Bank v. Pride Furniture, Inc., 877 P.2d 1222 (1994)"] compare attach vi : to make something (as a security interest) complete, in conformity with the law, or...
Perfectional
Of or pertaining to perfection characterized by perfection...
Perfective
Tending or conducing to make perfect or to bring to perfection usually followed by of...
Perfectly
In a perfect manner or degree in or to perfection completely wholly throughly faultlessly...
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