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Home Dictionary Name: suspendSuspending payment
Suspending payment, is a well-known commercial expression; and a merchant suspends payment when he ceases to discharge his mercantile obligations in due course. In ordinary parlance, the terms 'insolvent' and 'suspending payment' have practically the same meaning, Chemsey v. Gill & Co., 7 Bom LR 154....
suspend
suspend 1 : to debar temporarily from a privilege, office, or function 2 a : to stop temporarily [ trading] b : to make temporarily ineffective [ a license] c : stay [ a hearing] d : to defer until a later time see also suspended sentence at sentence ...
Suspend
Suspend, is to debar, usually for a time, from the exercise of a function, to interdict, to stay. It means temporarily staying the execution of the order or of a function, Sajja v. Habib Rather, (1979) Cal LR (J&K) 28.Suspend, to forbid an attorney or solicitor or ecclesiastical person from practising for an interval of time.1. To interrupt; postpone; defer 2. To temporarily keep a person from performing a function, occupying an office, holding a job or exercising a right or privilege, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1460....
suspended sentence
suspended sentence see sentence ...
Self suspended
Suspended by ones self or by itself balanced...
sentence
sentence [Old French, opinion, judicial sentence, from Latin sententia, ultimately from sentire to feel, think, express an opinion] 1 : a judgment formally pronouncing the punishment to be inflicted on one convicted of a crime 2 : the punishment that one convicted of a crime is ordered to receive concurrent sentence : a sentence that runs at the same time as another consecutive sentence : a sentence that runs before or after another cumulative sentence : consecutive sentence in this entry ;also : the combination of two or more consecutive sentences death sentence : a sentence condemning the convicted defendant to death de·ter·mi·nate sentence [di-tər-mə-nət-] : a sentence for a fixed rather than indeterminate length of time general sentence : a sentence that does not allocate the punishment imposed for the individual counts on which the defendant was convicted NOTE: General sentences are impermissible. in·de·ter·mi·nate s...
adjourn
adjourn : to put off further proceedings of either indefinitely or until a later stated time : close formally [ing the session] vi : to suspend a session or meeting till another time or indefinitely : suspend formal business or procedure and disband [the congress will next month] ad·journ·ment n ...
breach
breach 1 a : a violation in the performance of or a failure to perform an obligation created by a promise, duty, or law without excuse or justification breach of duty : a breach of a duty esp. by a fiduciary (as an agent or corporate officer) in carrying out the functions of his or her position breach of trust : a breach by a trustee of the terms of a trust (as by stealing from or carelessly mishandling the funds) breach of warranty : a breach by a seller of the terms of a warranty (as by the failure of the goods to conform to the seller's description or by a defect in title) NOTE: A seller may be liable for a breach of warranty even without any negligence or misconduct. b : failure without excuse or justification to fulfill one's obligations under a contract called also breach of contract compare repudiation an·tic·i·pa·to·ry breach : a breach of contract that occurs as a result of a party's anticipatory repudiation of the contract ef·fi·c...
suspension
suspension : the act of suspending : the state or period of being suspended [the of an employee] ...
toll
toll [Old English, tax or fee paid for a liberty or privilege, ultimately from Late Latin telonium custom house, from Greek tolōnion, from telōnēs collector of tolls, from telos tax, toll] : a charge for the use of a transportation route or facility ;broadly : a charge for use [a water ] vb [Anglo-French tollir toller to take away, make null, bar, ultimately from Latin tollere to lift up, take away] vt 1 : to take away (as a right) 2 a : to remove the effect of [the court did not the statute of repose after the statutory period had expired] b : suspend [ the running of the statute of limitations] compare run vi : to be suspended [statute of limitations s for a period of seventy-five days following the notice "Parker v. Yen, 823 S.W.2d 359 (1991)"] n : a suspension of effect [the court extended the statute of limitations ] ...
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