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Mistake

cancelled on the ground of one of the parties having entered into it by mistake. The rectification, or setting aside, or cancellation of written instruments is part of the business assigned to the Chancery Division of the

Layaway

means an agreement between a retail seller and a consumer to hold goods for future sale. The seller sets the goods aside and agrees to sell them to the consumer at an agreed price in the future.

Improbation

Improbation, the disproving or setting aside of deeds and writings ex facie probative on the ground of falsehood or forgery. Bell's Dict.

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judgment

be granted upon a motion by a defendant whose motion for a directed verdict was denied and that sets aside the jury's verdict in favor of a judgment in accordance with the motion for directed verdict called

False Verdict

the jury erred merely point at law, if they found according to the judge's direction. The practice of setting aside verdicts and granting new trials, however, so superseded the use of attains that there is no instance

Chancery

distribution of proceeds of property subject to a lien or charge; execution of trusts, charitable or private; rectification, setting aside, or cancelling deeds or other written instruments; specific performance of contracts between vendors and purchasers of real

Abrogation

adding a clause to it; from obrogation, which implies the limiting or restraining it; from dispensation, which only sets it aside in a particular instance; and from antiquation, which is the refusing to pass a law, Encyc.

Sequestration

The act of separating or setting aside a thing in controversy from the possession of both the parties that contend for it to be

Seposition

The act of setting aside or of giving up

Self renunciation

The act of renouncing or setting aside ones own wishes claims etc self sacrifice

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