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Perfectionate

To perfect

unperfected

unperfected : not perfected [an security interest]

Bill of sight

real quantities or qualities of any goods assigned to him, so that he is unable to make a perfect entry of them, he must acquaint the collector or comptroller of the circumstance; and he is authorized, upon

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Perfectionist

One pretending to perfection esp one pretending to moral perfection one who believes that persons may and do attain to moral perfection

Registration of title of land

estate, and until that takes place the purchaser is open to the risk of the vendor establishing or perfecting equities against him and even fradulently conveying the same land to another purchaser, who may obtain a perfect

Mortgage

again free from the mortgagee's claim; but should he not comply with such proviso, the legal estate becomes perfected in the mortgagee, i.e., indefeasible, and so lost at the Common Law to the mortgagor. Until the mortgage

Magna Carta

Cornwell to abolish this military tenure, which he did by intermitting the Court of Wards in 1645. So perfectly hopeless was the renewal of this oppressive system at the restoration of the second Charles, that the provision

Id perfectum est quod ex omnibus suis partibus constat; et nihil perfectum est dum aliquid restat agendum

Id perfectum est quod ex omnibus suis partibus constat; et nihil perfectum est dum aliquid restat agendum [Lat.], that is

Possession is nine points of the law

antagonists. For instance, if the claimant be able to show a descent from the grantor of the estate, perfect except in one link of the chain, and the man in possession be a perfect stranger, the latter

Predicate

Predicate, that which is said concerning the subject in a logical proposition, as, 'The law is the perfection of commonsense'; perfection of commonsense, being affirmed concerning the law (the subject) is the predicate or thing predicated.

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