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damage
fine] 1 : loss or harm resulting from injury to person, property, or reputation 2 pl : the money awarded to a party in a civil suit as reparation for the loss or injury for which another … for the loss or injury for which another is liable see also additur, cover, mitigate, remittitur compare declaratory judgment at judgment, injunction specific performance at performance NOTE: The trier of fact determines the amount of damages to
garnishment
garnishment : a remedial device used by a creditor to have property of the debtor or money owed to the debtor that is in the possession of a third party attached to pay the debt … attached to pay the debt to the creditor ;specif : attachment of the debtor's wages to satisfy a judgment compare wage assignment at assignment
Bill of Exchange
is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer.' It is a chose in action, … merchants. The earliest English case on the subject is Martin v. Boure, (1603-04) Cro. Jac. 6. (See the judgment of Lord Cockburn, C.J., in Goodwin v. Robarts, (1855) L.R. 10 Ex. 337 (346).) The whole law of
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Copyhold
be the ancient villeinage modified and changed by the commutation of base services into specified rents, either in money or money's worth. A copyhold estate is a parcel of the demesnes of a manor held at the … are liable to all sorts of debts, by 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 104, and the (English) Judgments Act, 1838 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 110). (9) The widow of a copyholder, according to a particular
For
time means 'for obtaining a decree ordering (payment or recovery for). A decree for declaration of title to money or other property is not a decree for money or other property. The expression 'decree for money or … 2 SCR 588. 'For' used with the active participle of a verb means 'For the purpose of' (See judgment of Westbury C., 1127) 'For' has many shades of meaning. It connotes the end with reference to which
Partition
that would be to spoil them; but some recompense is to be made either by a sum of money or rent for owelty of partition, to those that have the houses of least value. For an order … requisite power under s. 57 of the (English) Trustee Act, 1925. See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Partition'; Seton on Judgments. A party asking for a sale was not compellable to part with his share to his co-owners at
Valuation
valuing, Jensen v. Jensen, 458 NW 2d 391 (1990). This term is generally applied to the equivalent in money of any kind of property. Thus for the payment of estate duty, a valuation of property of all … Gas and Water Board, (1909) 1 KB 16, in which Lord Justice Moulton in the course of his judgment said (at p. 29):- 'The principles upon which compensation is assessed when land is taken under compulsory powers
Interest
inter alia as the compensation fixed by agreement or allowed by law for the use or detention of money, or for the loss of money by one who is entitled to its use; especially, the amount owed … the court may, if it thinks fit, order that there shall be included in the sum for which judgment is given, interest at such rate as it thinks fit on the whole or any part of the
Decree
Officer, (1994) 4 SCC 99: AIR 1994 SC 1901. A decree in invitum is not an instrument securing money or other property; such a decree is a record of the formal adjudication of the Court relating to … Decree [fr. decretum, Lat.], an edict, a law. The term was also used for the judgment of a Court of Equity. But by the (English) Judicature Acts, 1873 and 1875, the expression judgment, which
interest
the use of property has a possessory interest, while a party who has an easement does not. purchase money security interest 1 : the security interest held by the seller of collateral to secure payment of all … or judicial means without any agreement providing for security (as in the case of a tax lien or judgment lien), a security interest and lien may inhere in the same claim, as when a mortgage comprises both
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