Skip to content

Terminate - Law Dictionary Search Results

Research workspace

Save terms and build your research trail

A free trial unlocks notes, tags, search history, and the full AI Studio desk for judgment research.

trust

lasting at least ten years with income payable to a beneficiary and principal reverting to the settlor upon termination NOTE: Prior to the Tax Reform Act of 1986, a Clifford trust could be used as a tax

tenancy

tenancy that is carried forward by specified time periods (as months) without a lease and that may be terminated by the landlord or tenant after giving proper notice tenancy at sufferance : holdover tenancy in this entry

reversion

act of turning back, from revertere to turn back] 1 : the returning of an estate upon its termination to the former owner or to his or her successor in interest 2 a : the present vested

Keep your definitions linked to case research

prescription

until the possessor begins to possess the property on his or her own behalf (as after a lease terminates). liberative prescription : a period of time set by law (as one year) after which legal action is

will

period (as 30 days) and that is allowed only for one in imminent peril of death from a terminal illness or from military or maritime service pour-over will : a will that provides for a transfer of

generation-skipping transfer

generation more than one generation below that of the transferor and that can be characterized as a taxable termination, a taxable distribution, or a direct skip see also direct skip generation-skipping trust at trust, skip person, taxable

Trinity sittings

Appeal and of the High Court of Justice in Middlesex commence on the Tuesday after Whitsun week and terminate on the 31st of July. See R.S.C. Ord. LXIII., r. 1, and SITTINGS.

power

upon an estate that was granted upon a condition after the breach of the condition in order to terminate the granted estate and revest it in the grantor or successors in interest called also right of entry

Finish

end of to bring to an end to put an end to to make an end of to terminate

Dissolve

to break up hence to bring to an end by separating the parts sundering a relation etc to terminate to destroy to deprive of force as to dissolve a partnership to dissolve Parliament

  • Last »

Try the research workspace - 7 days free


AI Briefs · Semantic Search · Save & annotate judgments

Start your 7-day free trial