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partial claim

partial claim a loss mitigation option offered by the FHA that allows a borrower, with help from a lender, to get an interest-free loan from HUD to bring their mortgage payments up to date. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...


partial payment

partial payment a payment that is less than the total amount owed on a monthly mortgage payment. Normally, lenders do not accept partial payments. The lender may make exceptions during times of difficulty. Contact your lender prior to the due date if a partial payment is needed. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...


Partially

In part not totally as partially true the sun partially eclipsed...


Partial disablement

Partial disablement, means, where the disablement is of a temporary nature, such disablement as reduces the earning capacity of a workman in any employment in which he was engaged at the time of the accident resulting in the disablement, and, where the disablement is of a permanent nature, such disablement as reduces his earning capacity in every employment which he was capable of undertaking at that time: provided that every injury specified in Part II of Schedule I shall be deemed to result in permanent partial disablement. [Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923 (8 of 1923), s. 2 (1) (g)]...


Tort

Tort [fr. tortus, Lat.], an injury or wrong independent of contract, as by assault, libel, malicious prosecution, negligence, slander, or trespass (see those titles). Actions are divided into actions in contract and actions in tort: see as to county Court jurisdiction in actions of tort when claim is under 100l. (except libel, slander seduction). See County Courts Act, 1934, s. 40, and as to costs of actions of tort commenced in High Court which could have been commenced in County Court, see s. 47, and COUNTY COURT. An action founded on tort was Tort [fr. tortus, Lat.], an injury or wrong independent of contract, as by assault, libel, malicious prosecution, negligence, slander, or trespass (see those titles). Actions are divided into actions in contract and actions in tort: see as to county Court jurisdiction in actions of tort when claim is under 100l. (except libel, slander seduction). See County Courts Act, 1934, s. 40, and as to costs of actions of tort commenced in High Court whic...


Counter-claim

Counter-claim, the word 'counter-claim' in s. 19(8) to (11) which is equated to a cross-suit, includes a claim if it is made in an independent suit filed earlier, Union of India, v. Abhijit Tea Co. (P.) Ltd., (2000) 7 SCC 357: AIR 2000 SC 2957 (2965). [Recovery of Debts due to Bank and Financial Institutions Act, 1993, s. 19(8) to (ii)]By (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XIX., r. 3, under the (English) Judciature Act, 1873, s. 24 (3); replaced by the (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 39 (1) (a), subject to the provisions of Rule 15, Order XXI, (exclusion of counter-claim), a defendant in an action may set off, or set up by way of counterclaim, against the claims of the plaintiff, any right or claim, whether such set-off or counter-claim sound in damages or not, and such set-off or counterclaim shall have the same effect as across action, so as to enable the Court to pronounce a final judgment in the same action, both on the original and on the cross claim. (As amended by (English) R.S.C. N...


United States Court of Federal Claims

United States Court of Federal Claims : a federal court having nationwide trial jurisdiction over claims against the United States see also federal circuit NOTE: The claims over which this court has jurisdiction include those based on the Constitution, acts of Congress, regulations of an executive agency, contracts with the United States, actions for damages not sounding in tort, claims of American Indian groups against the United States, and certain tax cases (as claims for tax refunds). Private bills are referred to it from Congress for advisory findings as to whether there is a genuine legal or equitable claim for relief. The court does not have jurisdiction over claims for pensions or claims based on treaties with foreign nations. ...


claim

claim [Old French, from clamer to call, claim, from Latin clamare to shout, proclaim] 1 a : a demand for something (as money) due or believed to be due ;specif : a demand for a benefit (as under the workers' compensation law) or contractual payment (as under an insurance policy) b : a paper embodying such a demand [filing a with the court] 2 : a title to something (as a debt or privilege) in the possession of another [assigned her to the proceeds] 3 a : a right to seek a judicial remedy arising from a wrong or injury suffered [a plaintiff who has been injured in an accident has…one for a broken arm, another for a ruptured spleen, and so forth "J. H. Friedenthal et al."] ;also : the formal assertion of such a right [bringing a in the district court] b : cause of action [a plaintiff stated a against a seller of applesauce when she alleged that her children…ate the applesauce…and were then so discomforted that they had to have their stomachs pumped "J. J. Whit...


informal proof of claim

informal proof of claim :a writing by a creditor that contains a demand for payment of a debt and an intention to hold the debtor's bankruptcy estate liable but that is not in the form prescribed in the Bankruptcy Code for proofs of claim NOTE: If an informal proof of claim is filed with the bankruptcy court within the time allowed for filing proofs of claim, the court may allow the creditor to file a proof of claim in its correct form and consider it as having been filed on the date that the informal proof of claim was filed. ...


partial breach

partial breach see breach ...


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