Maintenance - Law Dictionary Search Results
Adoption
of a child as if born to the adopter in lawful wedlock, inter alia in regard to custody, maintenance and education, appointment of guardians or consent or marriage, and the child assumes the same relation to the
gross
: overall total exclusive of deductions in gross 1 : as a lump sum see also lump sum alimony at alimony 2 : independently existing, belonging to a person, and not attached to land see also easement
Contingent legacy
guides to construction, e.g., in general, a gift of interest in the interim or a direction to pay maintenance points to a vested and not a contingent gift and where a previous interest is given to one
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gross income
gains derived from dealings in property; (4) interest; (5) rents; (6) royalties; (7) dividends; (8) alimony and separate maintenance payments; (9) annuities; (10) income from life insurance and contracts for endowment insurance; (11) pensions; (12) income from
Acquiesce
(1) applicable to acquisition of property by inheritance or devise or at a partition or in lieu of maintenance or arrears of maintenance or by gift or by a female's own skill or exertion or by purchase
palimony
a form of alimony paid to a former partner in a romantic relationship after a period of living together even though the
Aliment
Aliment [fr. alimentum, Lat.], a fund for maintenance-alimony, Scots Law.
Appanage, or Apanage
to nourish], (1) the provision of lands of feudal superiorities assigned by the Kings of France for the maintenance of their younger sons. (2) The allowance assigned to the prince of a reigning house for a proper
Appropriate authority
of Misuse) Act, 1994 (57 of 1994), s. 2 (a)] Means, in relation to a bridge for the maintenance of which a bridge authority is responsible, or a road passing over such a bridge, the bridge authority;
Champarty or champerty
Edw. 1, st. , c. 9; and 32 Hen. 8, c. 9. It is an aggravated form of maintenance, See Hutley v. Hutley, (1873) LR 8 Q 112; Attorneys and Solicitors Act (in re:), 1870 (1875) 1
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