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Pari passu

The lexical meaning of the Latin word pari passu is -- at an equal rate or pace, with simultaneous progress, proportionately etc. This term is generally used in the context of creditors who, in marshalling assets, are

Payment on delivery

Payment on delivery, means that both acts are to be done simultaneously, Paynter v. James, LR 2 CP 348.

Profert in curi'

by a rule of pleading, to make profert of such deed; that is, to produce it in Court simultaneously with the pleading in which it was alleged. This, in the days of oral pleading, was of course

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nuclear fusion

A type of nuclear reaction in which atomic nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy

Iris diaphragm

thin curved plates fastened at regular intervals around the inside of a ring the positions of which are simultaneously adjusted by a single knob on the outside of the lens It is used in cameras and microscopes

VerbarMitrailleuse

machine gun consisting of a number of barrels fitted together so arranged that the barrels can be fired simultaneously or successively and rapidly

sale leaseback

sale leaseback when a seller deeds property to a buyer for a payment, and the buyer simultaneously leases the property back to the seller. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

cause

result would not have occurred called also actual cause but-for cause concurrent cause : a cause that joins simultaneously with another cause to produce a result called also concurring cause compare intervening cause and superseding cause in

concurrence

concurrence 1 : the simultaneous occurrence of events or circumstances 2 : an agreement in judgment ;specif : a judge's or justice's separate

hearing

at which a debtor may reaffirm dischargeable debts NOTE: The reaffirmation hearing and discharge hearing are usually held simultaneously. suppression hearing : a hearing held in a criminal case to determine the admissibility of evidence that the

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