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report out

report out : to return after consideration and often with revisions to a legislative body for action [after much debate the committee reported the bill out]

Absolute

Absolute, means free from restriction, qualification or condition e.g. absolute ownership; conclusive and not liable to revision e.g. absolute delivery, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 7. Absolute, complete, unconditional. A rule or order absolute

refinance

refinance 1 : to renew or reorganize the financing of 2 : to revise the terms of (a debt obligation) esp. in regard to interest rate or payment schedule [ a mortgage]

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referee

make orders subject to review [the board may affirm, reverse, modify or supplement the order of the "Oregon Revised Statutes"]

peremptory

peremptory [Late Latin peremptorius, from Latin, destructive, from perimere to take entirely, destroy] 1 : permitting no dispute, alternative, or delay ;specif : not providing an opportunity to show cause why one should not comply [when...

mistake

not indicate bad faith and that commonly warrants excuse or relief by the court [the court's power to revise a judgment because of fraud, , or irregularity] [a clerical ] 2 : an erroneous belief: as a

magistrate

having power to issue a warrant for the arrest of a person charged with a public offense "Arizona Revised Statutes"]

justify

oath as to the ownership of sufficient property [they shall in an amount no less than $200 "Oregon Revised Statutes"] ;also : to qualify as a surety by swearing such an oath [the defendants sought to as

immovable

or a building) [a manufactured home placed upon a lot or tract of land shall be an "Louisiana Revised Statutes"] ;also : an interest or right (as a servitude) in an item of immovable property [a predial

heir

procedure in order to receive possession of the property. This division of heirs was eliminated in the 1981 revision of the Civil Code. natural heir : an heir (as a child) whose status as an heir arises

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