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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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