Once over

a swift cursory examination or inspection as I gave him the once over...

Once, if it is provided, that an act is to be done, say once in six months, it would probably be understood to mean that six months should not elapse between the two acts. Dividing the year into two equal periods and doing the act once in the beginning of the first and once at the end of the second period would not be sufficient compliance, Stroud's Judicial Dictionary....

Once and for all

Once and for all, the expression 'once and for all' was used to denote an expenditure which is made once and for all for procuring an enduring benefit to the business as distinguished from a recurring expenditure in the nature of operational expenses, CIT v. Coal Shipment (P) Ltd., AIR 1972 SC 541: (1971) 3 SCC 736: (1972) 1 SCR 1089....

Once action rule

Once action rule, means in debtor-creditor law the principle that when a debt is secured by real property the creditor must foreclose on the collateral before proceeding against the debtor's unsecured assets, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1116....

bind over

bind over 1 : to put under a bond to do something (as appear in court) under court authority 2 : to transfer (a case or defendant) to another forum after a finding of probable cause at a preliminary hearing NOTE: In states that require indictment by a grand jury in felony cases, a case will be bound over to the grand jury if the judge or magistrate finds at the preliminary hearing that there is probable cause to believe that the defendant committed the crime. In states that use an information, the case is bound over to the trial court upon a finding of probable cause. vi : to bind a case over [questioned the magistrate's decision to bind over] bind·over n ...

pour-over

pour-over : providing for or creating the transfer of property in a decedent's estate or a trust to a pour-over trust [a provision] [a bequest] see also pour-over trust at trust pour-over will at will n : an act or instance of pouring over ;also : a provision esp. in a will that calls for estate assets to be transferred to a pour-over trust ...

pour-over

pour-over : providing for or creating the transfer of property in a decedent's estate or a trust to a pour-over trust [a provision] [a bequest] see also pour-over trust at trust pour-over will at will n : an act or instance of pouring over ;also : a provision esp. in a will that calls for estate assets to be transferred to a pour-over trust ...

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