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Equate

To make equal to reduce to an average to make such an allowance or correction in as will reduce to a common standard

trust

also bypass shelter trust credit shelter trust shelter trust NOTE: The purpose of a bypass trust is to reduce the surviving spouse's taxable estate. Such trusts do not qualify for the marital deduction. charitable lead trust [-lēd-]

Go slow

to. It would not be far wrong to call this dishonest. For, while thus delaying production and thereby reducing the output the workmen claim to have remained employed and thus to be entitled to full wages. Apart

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amortize

amortize -tized -tiz·ing : to reduce (an amount) gradually: as a : to pay off (as a loan) gradually usually by periodic payments of

Tenancy in Common

estate in undivided shares inland has been abolished by the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 1, which reduced the interest of tenants-in-common to that of a cestui que trust under a trust for sale of land.

Specific performance

however, will entertain actions for the specific performance of contracts which, though within the statute, have not been reduced into writing, where there does not appear any danger of fraud or perjury. The following contacts will be

Remittitur

Remittitur, means the process by which a court reduces or proposes to reduce the damages awarded in a jury verdict, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1298

Provocation

provocation whatever can render homicide justifiable, but it Generally speak-ing, words do not amount to sufficient provocation to reduce homicide to manslaughter. To reduce homicide upon provocation to manslaughter, the wounding, etc., must have been inflicted immedia-tely

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

Material alteration

deed in its original state, or otherwise varies the legal effect of the instrument as originally expressed, or reduces to certainty some provision which was originally unascertained and as such void, or which may otherwise prejudice the

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