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Portioner

One who portions

Satisfaction

7th Edn., p. 1343. The doctrine of satisfaction of legacies, portions, and debts means the gift of a thing with the

legitime

lawful (share)] in the civil law of Louisiana : the portion (as one-fourth) of a testate succession that is reserved for

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Nappe

Sheet surface all that portion of a surface that is continuous in such a way

Coparceners or parceners

to equal parts in severalty, each to have a determinate portion. (b) Where they appointed some third person to divide the

Reversion

Reversion [fr. revertor, Lat.], that portion left of an estate after a grant of a particular

remittitur

in which the court requires the plaintiff to remit the portion of the verdict deemed excessive in lieu of a grant

Commanding Officer

any provision of this Act, with reference to any separate portion of the regular army or to any department thereof, means

Dotal

Dotal, relating to the portion of a woman; constituting her portion.

Withhold

tax purposes; esp., an employer's practice of taking out a portion of an employees gross earning and paying that portion to

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