Shift - Law Dictionary Search Results
Chemise
A shift or undergarment worn by women
Caveating
Shifting the sword from one side of an adversarys sword to the other
Springing use
and is not capable of being construed as a vested or contingent remainder, it may operate as a shifting use. Springing and shifting uses were resorted to in order to facilitate freedom of grant or conveyance of
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Uses
by act of law, which were either- (1) Resulting; (2) Implied. II. Future or executory, distributable into: (a) Shifting or secondary; (b) Springing; (c) Contingent. See TRUSTS. Objections to uses before the Statute:- 'Though these uses' (see
VerbarLautverschiebung
the Teutonic languages probably as early as the 3d century b c often called the first Lautverschiebung sound shifting or consonant shifting
Remainder
every contingent remainder created after the 2nd August, 1877, which would have been valid as a springing or shifting use or executory devise or other limitation had it not had a sufficient estate to support it as
makeshift
That with which one makes shift a temporary expedient with implication of inferiority to the more usual object or means
Goodwill
other factors go individu-ally or together to make up the goodwill, though locality always plays a considerable part. Shift the locality, and the goodwill may be lost. At the same time, locality is not everything. The power
use
back to a grantor when there is no person declared to receive it or no transfer of consideration shift·ing use : a use that is transferred or takes effect in derogation of some estate upon the happening
Dodge
To start suddenly aside as to avoid a blow or a missile to shift place by a sudden start
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