Overreach - Law Dictionary Search Results
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overreach : to make (someone or something) the subject of overreaching [this uncounseled defendant was…ed by the prosecution's submission of misinformation to the court "Townsend v. Burke, 334 U.S. 736 (1948)"] [must determine whether it ed privilege "National Law Journal"] ...
overreaching
overreaching 1 : conduct that exceeds established limits (as of authority or due process) [claimed that by the prosecution barred a retrial because of double jeopardy] 2 : the gaining of an unconscionable advantage over another esp. by unfair or deceptive means [if the contract was void for traditional reasons such as fraud or "Lugassy v. Independent Fire Ins. Co., 636 So. 2d 1332 (1994)"] ...
Overreacher
One who overreaches one who cheats a cheat...
Defraud
To deprive of some right interest or property by a deceitful device to withhold from wrongfully to injure by embezzlement to cheat to overreach as to defraud a servant or a creditor or the state with of before the thing taken or withheld...
Overreach
To reach too far...
L'sio ulta dimidium vel enormis
L'sio ulta dimidium vel enormis, the injury sustained by one of the parties to an onerous contact when he had been overreached by the other to the extent of more than one-half of the value of the subject-matter-e.g., when a vendor had not received half the value of property sold, or the purchaser had paid more than double value, Colq. Rom. Civ. Law, s. 2094. See Moyle's 'Contract of Sale in Civil Law.'...
Priority
Priority, an antiquity of tenure in comparison with another less ancient; also that which is before another in order of time.As to priority among creditors, see (English) Admin-istration of Estates Act, 1869, reproduced by ss. 32 to 34, (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925, and the First Sch., which provides that in the administration of the estate of any person who shall die on or after 1st January, 1870, no debt or liability of such person shall be entitled to any priority or preference by reason merely that the same is secured by or arises under a bond, deed, or other instrument under seal, or is otherwise made or constituted a specialty debt.The priority in legal and equitable assignments of equitable choses in action are determined accord-ing to the date of receipt of notice by the persons who are for the time being owners of the legal interest in the property assigned. Before 1926 the notice might be verbal; after 1926 it must, for the purposes of establishing priority a...
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