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Home Dictionary Name: maryMary Carter agreement
Mary Carter agreement [from Booth v. Mary Carter Paint Co., 202 So. 2d 8 (1967), Florida appeals court case that popularized the agreement] : a secret agreement between a plaintiff and one or more but not all codefendants which limits the liability of the defendants by giving them an interest in the recovery awarded to the plaintiff NOTE: In a Mary Carter agreement, the participating defendants agree to remain as parties to the lawsuit and guarantee payment to the plaintiff of a settled amount if no recovery is awarded against the other defendants. The plaintiff agrees to offset their liability by, or sometimes even to pay them from, a recovery awarded from the other defendants. Some states allow the admission of Mary Carter agreements into evidence. In other states they are illegal. ...
Algarum maris
Algarum maris, probably a corruption of Laganum maris, lagan being a right, in the Middle Ages, like jetsam and flotsam, by which goods thrown from a vessel in distress became the property of the king or the lord on whose shores they were stranded, Jac. Law Dict., Du Cange....
Purification beat' mari' virginis
Purification beat' mari' virginis, the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which falls on the second day of February in every year....
Wreccum maris significat illa bona qu' naufragio ad terram pelluntur
Wreccum maris significat illa bona qu' naufragio ad terram pelluntur.-(A wreck of the sea signifies those goods which are driven to shore from a shipwreck.)...
Feasts
Feasts, anniversary days of rejoining, either on a civil or religious occasion; opposed to fasts. Our feasts are either (1) immovable, such as Christmas-day, the Circumcision, Epiphany, Candlemas-day, Lady-day, All Saints, and All Souls, besides the days of the several apostles, St. Peter, St. Thomas, etc.: these are always celebrated on the same day of the year; or (2) movable, such as Easter,which fixes all the rest, as Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Ash Wednesday, Sexagesima, Ascension-day, Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, etc. The four principal immovable feasts of the year, which are commonly assigned in England for the payment of rents on leases, are the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, or Lady-day, being the 25th of March; the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, held on the 24th of June; the feast of St. Michael on the 29th of September; and Christmas-day on the 25th of December.A still unrepealed Act of 1551-2 (5 & 6 Edw. 6, c. 3), directs certain days therein mentioned (being all S...
Marian
Pertaining to the Virgin Mary or sometimes to Mary Queen of England daughter of Henry VIII...
Distress
Distress [fr. distringo, Lat., to bind fast; districtio, Med. Lat., whence distraindre, Fr.], a taking, without legal process, of a personal chattel from the possession of a wrong-doer into the hands of a party grieved, as a pledge for the redressing an injury, the performance of a duty, or the satisfaction of a demand.This remedy may be resorted to by a landlord for recovery of rent in arrear, by a rate collector or tax collector for recovery of rates or taxes, and by justices of the peace for the recovery of fines due on summary convictions.A distress may be made of common right for the rent payable by a tenant to a landlord, technically termed 'rent-service,' and by particular reservation, or under s. 121 of the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, for rent-charges, and also for rents-seck since the (English) Landlord and Tenant Act, 1730 (4 Geo. 2, c. 28), s. 5, which extended the same remedy to rents-seck, rents of assize, and chief-rents, and thereby in effect abolished all mater...
predicate
predicate -cat·ed -cat·ing : to set or ground on something : find a basis for usually used with on [if Mary's claim is predicated simply on John's duty of support "W. M. McGovern, Jr. et al."] [pre-di-kət] adj : relating to or being any of a series of criminal acts upon which prosecution for racketeering may be predicated [a act] [a crime] ...
Bain marie
A vessel for holding hot water in which another vessel may be heated without scorching its contents used for warming or preparing food or pharmaceutical preparations...
Candlemas
The second day of February on which is celebrated the feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary so called because the candles for the altar or other sacred uses are blessed on that day...
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