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Judgment

Judgment [fr. judgment, Fr.], judicial determination; decision of a Court. Under the former practice of the superior Courts, this term...

Uses (History). A use is the intention or purpose, express or implied, upon which property is to be held. The...

Consideration. Any act of the promisee (the person claiming the benefit of an obligation) from which the promisor (the person...

Registration of title of land. The (English) Land Registration Act, 1925 (15 Geo. 5, c. 21), repeals and re-enacts the...

Trust, is a comprehensive expression, as covering not only the relationship of trustee and beneficiary but also that a bailor...

Tail [fr. tailler, Fr., to prune]. An estate-tail was formerly a freehold of inheritance and is now an equitable interest...

Deed [fr. d'd, Sax.; ded gaded, Goth.;daed, Dut.], a formal document on paper or parchment duly signed, sealed, and delivered....

Shall, a word of slippery semantics in a rule is not decisive and the context of the statute, the purpose...

Public Order Act, 1936 (English) (1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6, c. 6). An Act to prohibit the wearing...

Notice, the making something known to a person of which he was or might be ignorant. Notice is either (1)...