Residue - Law Dictionary Search Results
Executor
it be expressed in the will: on which account the law formerly gave to the executor the whole residue undisposed of, unless, by some expression, to be collected from the will, a contrary intention was to be
Coke
word 'coke' given in Webster's New International Dictionary, Vol. I which is as follows: 'The infusible, cellular, coherent residue obtained when coal is subjected to destructive distillation. It consists mainly of carbon, is hard, porous, and grey,
residuary
residuary : of, relating to, consisting of, or constituting a residue n pl: -ar·ies 1 : residue 2 : residuary legatee
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Deferred stock
the net earnings of the whole stock, and 'deferred,' the holders of which are entitled to all the residue of the net earnings, after such fixed dividend has been paid to the holders of the 'preferred,' according
Executive function
to frame an exhaustive definition of what executive function means and implies. Ordinarily the executive power connotes the residue of governmental functions that remain after legislative and judicial functions are taken away. The executive function comprises both
Estate
was 'the immediate reversion to the tenants' leases, then a freeholder who had taken a surrender of the residue of an intermediate lease might be required to sell the nominated purchaser his entire freehold, Kensington Heights Commercial
Electoral franchise
not less than 5l. clear yearly value; or (ii) was entitled as lessee or assignee to the unexpired residue of a term of years of originally not less than 60 years of the same annual value; or
Distribution, Statute of
intestate, be distributed in the following manner: one-third shall go to the widow of the intestate, and the residue in equal proportions to his children, or, if dead, to their representatives, that is, their lineal descendants; if
Derivative of opium
series of operations designed to transform opium into an extract suitable for smoking, and the dross or other residue remaining after opium is smoked, (iii) Morphine, that is, the principal alkaloid of opium having the chemical formula
Pyridyl
A hypothetical radical C5H4N regarded as the essential residue of pyridine and analogous to phenyl
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