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trust

trust NOTE: The purpose of a bypass trust is to reduce the surviving spouse's taxable estate. Such trusts do not qualify

Alteration of share capital

and subject to confirmation by the Court a company may reduce its capital by special resolution for reducing share capital and

Equate

To make equal to reduce to an average to make such an allowance or correction

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Civil Law

up by this new commission having been duly approved, and reduced to writing on two supplementary tables, made up the total

Tenancy in Common

by the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 1, which reduced the interest of tenants-in-common to that of a cestui que

Specific performance

of contracts which, though within the statute, have not been reduced into writing, where there does not appear any danger of

Remittitur

Remittitur, means the process by which a court reduces or proposes to reduce the damages awarded in a jury

Reduction in rank

Reduction in rank, a civil servant is reduced in rank only

Provocation

Generally speak-ing, words do not amount to sufficient provocation to reduce homicide to manslaughter. To reduce homicide upon provocation to manslaughter,

Material alteration

the legal effect of the instrument as originally expressed, or reduces to certainty some provision which was originally unascertained and as

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