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Home Dictionary Name: meantimeMeantime
The intervening time as in the meantime or mean time...
Intercur
To intervene to come or occur in the meantime...
Intermean
Something done in the meantime interlude...
Ad interim
Ad interim (in the meantime)....
Bail in error
Bail in error, is a security given by a defendant who intends to bring a writ of error on a judgment and desires a stay of execution in the meantime, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 136....
Banker's receipt
Banker's receipt, a banker's receipt is a document issued by the seller bank acknowledging that it has received money for the sale of a particular security. It implies that the subject security is not readily available for delivery and that the same shall be delivered against the return of banker's receipt duly discharged, and in the meantime the securities are held by the seller bank on account of the purchaser, Citi Bank N.A. v. Standard Chartered Bank, (2004) 6 SCC 1 (16)....
Half-notes
Half-notes. Sending the halves of bank notes is no payment, and the property in the meantime remains in the sender, Smith v. Mundy, (1860) 3 Ell & Ell 22. But see Redmayne v. Burton Lloyd & Co., (1860) 2 LT 324. (Issuing bankers bound to pay half-notes upon indemnity)...
Infant
Infant [fr. infans, Lat., one who cannot speak], a person under twenty-one years of age, whose acts are in many cases either void or voidable. See AGE.At Common Law, the contracts of infants are divided into three classes: 1st. Those which are absolutely void; such as are positively injurious to the interests of the infant, and can only operate to his prejudice; as a surety-bond, or a release to his guardian.2nd. Those which are only voidable: such as are beneficial to him, which he may affirm or avoid when he comes of age; as a conveyance of lands, a promissory note, an account stated.3rd. Those which are binding ab initio and need on ratification: such as contracts for the public service, Articles of apprenticeship [see Green v. Thompson, (1899) 2 QB 1], executed contracts of marriage, representative acts as executor or trustee, contracts for necessaries. In an action brought for the price of goods, if the defendant pleads infancy, the onus is on the plaintiff to prove that the goods...
Interim order
Interim order. One made in the meantime, and until something is done...
Letter of licence
Letter of licence, an instrument in writing whereby the creditors of a man who had failed to meet his engagements gave him time for the payment of his debts, and undertook that in the meantime he should be free from arrest for debt; but arrest for debt was abolished by the Debtors Act, 1869(32 & 33 Vict. c. 62), subject to the provisions of that Act....
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