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Home Dictionary Name: short jointedShort jointed
Having short intervals between the joints said of a plant or an animal especially of a horse whose pastern is too short...
Joint-tenancy
Joint-tenancy. This tenancy is created where the same interest in real or personal property is, by the act of the party, passed by the same matter of conveyance or claim in solido, and not as merchan-dise, or for purposes of speculation, to two or more persons in the same right, either simply, or by construction or operation of law jointly, with a jus accrescendi, that is, a gradual concentration of property from more to fewer, by the accession of the part of him or them that die to the survivors or survivor, till it passes to a single hand, and the joint-tenancy ceases.Anciently, joint-tenancy was favoured because it did not induce fractions of estates, and returning to early principles the (English) Land Legislation of 1925 has employed the tenure generally as the machinery by which legal estate may in such cases always be in some person, called the estate owner, who is competent to give a title to the whole estate without the concurrence of other parties. that legal estate has been ...
joint and several
joint and several : relating or belonging to two or more parties together and separately [joint and several duties of the partners] see also joint and several liability at liability compare in solido, joint, jointly joint·ly and sev·er·al·ly adv ...
Shortness
The quality or state of being short want of reach or extension brevity deficiency as the shortness of a journey the shortness of the days in winter the shortness of an essay the shortness of the memory a shortness of provisions shortness of breath...
Hindu joint family and coparcenary
Hindu joint family and coparcenary, a hindu joint family consists of all persons lineally descended from a common ancestor, and includes their wives an unmarried daughters. A Hindu coparcenary is a much narrower body than the joint family: it includes only those person who acquire by birth an interest in the joint or coparcenary property, these being the sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons of the holder of the joint property for the time being. Therefore there may be a joint Hindu family consisting of a single male member and widows of deceased coparceners, Gowli Buddanna v. CIT, AIR 1966 SC 1523 (1525): (1966) 3 SCR 224. [Income-tax Act, 1922 (11 of 1922), s. 3]...
joint tenancy (with rights of survivorship)
joint tenancy (with rights of survivorship) two or more owners share equal ownership and rights to the property. If a joint owner dies, his or her share of the property passes to the other owners, without probate. In joint tenancy, ownership of the property cannot be willed to someone who is not a joint owner. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
Joint sitting
Joint sitting, is a joint sitting of both Houses of a bicameral legislature for setting a disagreement, Office of the Speaker in the Parliaments of Commonwealth, Wilding and Philip Laundry, p. 412.In U.K., there is no provision for joint session of the House of Commons and the House of Lords. In Australia, a joint meeting of both Houses of Parliament is held for the purpose of settling a disagreement between them or where it is necessary that a majority of both Houses sitting together should be obtained before changes can be made to the Constitution or certain types of legislation passed, Office of the Speaker in the Parliaments of Commonwealth, Wilding and Philip Laundry, p. 412....
Joint venture
Joint venture, The expression 'joint venture' is more frequently used in the United States. It con-notes a legal entity in the nature of a partnership engaged in the joint undertaking of a particular transaction for mutual profit or an association of persons or companies jointly undertaking some commercial enterprise wherein all contribute assets and share risks. It requires a community of interest in the performance of the subject-matter, a right to direct and govern the policy in connection therewith, and duty, which may be altered by agreement, to share both in profit and losses, New Horizons Ltd. v. Union of India, (1995) 1 SCC 478....
Short lived
Not living or lasting long being of short continuance as a short lived race of beings short lived pleasure short lived passion...
Entering short
Entering short. When bills not due are paid into a bank by a customer, it is the custom of some bankers not to carry the amount of the bills directly to his credit, but to 'enter them short,' as it is called, i.e., to note down the receipt of the bills, their amounts, and the times when they become due in a previous column of the page, and the amounts when received are carried forward into the usual cash column. See Giles v. Perkins, (1807) 9 East 13. Sometimes, instead of entering such bills short, bankers credit the customer directly with the amount of the bills as cash, charging interest on any advances they may make on their account, and allow him at once to draw upon them to that amount. If the banker becomes bankrupt, the property in bills entered short, and not credited to the customer unless by way of advance, does not pass to his trustee, but the customer is entitled to them if they remain in his hands, or to their proceeds, if received, subject to any lien the banker may have...
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