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impleader
or defendant against a third party who may be liable to that plaintiff or defendant called also third-party practice compare counterclaim, cross-claim, interpleader, intervention, joinder … impleader : the act or procedural device of impleading a third party ;specif : a petition or complaint brought in a lawsuit by a plaintiff or defendant against a third
Reply
federal practice, the plaintiff's response to the defendant's counterclaim (or, by court order, to the defendant's or a third party answer), Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1302.
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Completion
Completion, as regards third parties, means completion in fact, and not completion to the satisfaction of the architect or otherwise ascertained in … Completion, as regards third parties, means completion in fact, and not completion to the satisfaction of the architect or otherwise ascertained in some … by the contract, Lewis v. Hoare, (1881) 44 LT 66, CA. Means practical completion, Emson Eastern Ltd. v. EME Developments Ltd., (1991) 55 BLR 114.
intervention
intervention : the act or an instance of intervening ;specif : the act or procedure by which a third party becomes a party to a pending proceeding between other parties in order to protect his or her own … There is some overlap between joinder and intervention because of the merger of law and equity in federal practice. intervention of right : intervention allowed in federal civil procedure when a statute grants an absolute right to
Supreme Court of Judicature
of litigious business up to actual trial; counter-claims, and the power of a defendant to bring in 'third parties,' were introduced; new rules of pleading, intending to combine the brevity of the Common Law system with the … 'official referees,' with power to report to the court upon questions of fact, were appointed; and the Chancery practice of leaving costs (which at Common Law 'followed the event' of an action largely in the discretion of
Arbitration
in an 'umpire' to decide between them. Means a method of dispute resolution involving one or more neutral third parties who are usually agreed to by the disputing parties and whose decision is binding, Black Law Dictionary … 327], and cannot award anything contrary thereto. It is, however, the recognized practice in commercial arbitrations, where an umpire is appointed, for the arbitrators on … time for making award, etc., are prima facie included in every submission, and by s. 4 if any party to a submission [including an agreement to refer disputes to a foreign tribunal, Kirchner v. Gruban, (1909) 1
Trust
interest held by one person (trustee) at the request of another (the settlor) for the benefit of a third party (the beneficiary), Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1513. A trust is simply a confidence, reposed either ex-pressly … grantor or settlor or in addition to and subject to such directions. This part is important from a practical point of view because trustees are liable to make good any loss on unauthorised investments in the absence
Abstract of title
executed, and have where necessary been enrolled or otherwise perfected. Whenever the deeds are in the possession of third parties, inquiry should be made as to their interests therein: see (English) Law of Properties Act, 1925, s. … interest affecting it took the property subject thereto, but legislation and the practice of conveyancers have gradually lessened the inconvenience of this doctrine: see LEGAL … borne, see (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 45. The points to which his attention should be particularly directed in comparing the muniments with the abstract, are the stamps upon the deeds (see Whiting to Loomes,
bill
of credit bill of exchange : an instrument by one party directing another party to pay a named third party or anyone bearing it a specific amount of money on a named future date or on demand ;also … review in this entry NOTE: Bills in the nature of a bill of review were abolished in federal practice by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b). bill in the na·ture of interpleader : a bill of interpleader
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