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Under any customary or personal law applicable to parties

personal law of the parties. There must be a rational relation between the sum so paid and its potential as provision for main-tenance; to interpret otherwise is to stultify the project. Law is dynamic and its meaning

Universal agent

do and which he may lawfully delegate the power to another to do. Such an universal agency may potentially exist, but it must be of the rarest occurrence. And indeed it is difficult to conceive of the

Unlawful activity, unlawful association

In other words, 'any action taken' by such individual or association constituting an 'unlawful activity' must have the potential specified in the definition, Jamaat-E-Islami v. Union of India, (1995) 2 SCC 428 (441). [Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act,

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Equipotential

Having the same potential

public offering

public offering : an offering of corporate securities to the general public or to potential purchasers whose level of knowledge or access to information about the securities is dependent upon the disclosures of

elicited

called forth from a latent or potential state by stimulation as an elicited response

in posse

in posse [Medieval Latin, in possibility] : not in actuality : having a potential to exist compare in esse

absentee

as a : a proprietor who lives away from his or her business or estate b : a potential party to a legal action who is not present or does not have a representative present at a

credit history

that is generated from the history is called a credit report. Lenders use this information to gauge a potential borrower's ability to repay a loan. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

creditor

and may enforce the judgment (as by attachment or writ of execution) known creditor : a creditor whose potential claim is known or should be known by a debtor and who is entitled to notice of a

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Under any customary or personal law applicable to parties

personal law of the parties. There must be a rational relation between the sum so paid and its potential as provision for main-tenance; to interpret otherwise is to stultify the project. Law is dynamic and its meaning

Universal agent

do and which he may lawfully delegate the power to another to do. Such an universal agency may potentially exist, but it must be of the rarest occurrence. And indeed it is difficult to conceive of the

Unlawful activity, unlawful association

In other words, 'any action taken' by such individual or association constituting an 'unlawful activity' must have the potential specified in the definition, Jamaat-E-Islami v. Union of India, (1995) 2 SCC 428 (441). [Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act,

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Equipotential

Having the same potential

public offering

public offering : an offering of corporate securities to the general public or to potential purchasers whose level of knowledge or access to information about the securities is dependent upon the disclosures of

elicited

called forth from a latent or potential state by stimulation as an elicited response

in posse

in posse [Medieval Latin, in possibility] : not in actuality : having a potential to exist compare in esse

absentee

as a : a proprietor who lives away from his or her business or estate b : a potential party to a legal action who is not present or does not have a representative present at a

credit history

that is generated from the history is called a credit report. Lenders use this information to gauge a potential borrower's ability to repay a loan. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

creditor

and may enforce the judgment (as by attachment or writ of execution) known creditor : a creditor whose potential claim is known or should be known by a debtor and who is entitled to notice of a

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