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vin Shorthand for "vehicle identification number." Your VIN is also relevant to areas other than insurance, but may come up in the insurance field if there is a question as to the ownership of your car. A car's VIN is a unique number assigned to the car. The VIN can be found, usually, engraved on a metal plate affixed to the dashboard which is visible through the windshield. ...


divorce

divorce [Middle French, from Latin divortium, from divortere divertere to leave one's marriage partner, from di- away, apart + vertere to turn] : the dissolution of a valid marriage granted esp. on specified statutory grounds (as adultery) arising after the marriage compare annulment NOTE: The most common grounds for divorce are absence from the marital home, drug or alcohol addiction, adultery, cruelty, conviction of a crime, desertion, insanity, and nonsupport. absolute divorce : a divorce that completely and permanently dissolves the marital relationship and terminates marital rights (as property rights) and obligations (as fidelity) divorce a men·sa et tho·ro [-ā-men-sə-et-thȯr-ō, -Ä -men-sÄ -et-thō-rō] : a separation governed by a court order : legal separation divorce a vin·cu·lo mat·ri·mo·nii [-ā-vi-ky-lō-ma-trə-mō-nē-ī, -Ä -vi-kü-lō-mÄ -trē...


marchand de vin

A sauce consisting of brown sauce with mushrooms and red wine or madeira...


Authority

Authority, means the Coastal Aquaculture Authority established under sub-section (1) of section 4. [Coastal Aquaculture Authority Act, 2005 (24 of 2005), s. 2(a)]Means the right or permission to act legally on another's behalf; the power delegated by a principal to an agent e.g. authority to sign the contract, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 127.Means a right; an official or judicial command; also a legal power to do an act given by one man to another. Consult Vin. Abr., tit. 'Authority,' and Sugden on Powers, and see WARRANTY.Dictionary meaning of the word 'authority' is clearly wide enough to include all bodies created by a statute on which powers are conferred to carry out governmental or quasi-governmental functions, Som Prakash Rekki v. Union of India, (1981) 1 SCC 449, AIR 1981 SC 212 (229). (Constitution of India Art. 12)The meaning of the word 'authority' given in Webster's Third New International Dictionary, which can be applicable is 'a public administrative agency or corp...


Confusion, property by

Confusion, property by. Where goods of two persons are so intermixed that the several portions can no longer be distinguished; if the intermixture be by consent, it is supposed that the proprietors have an interest in common, in proportion to their respective shares; but if one wilfully intermix his money, corn, or hay, with that of another man, without his approbation or knowledge, or cast gold in like manner into another's melting-pot or crucible, our law allows no remedy in such a case, but gives the entire property without any account to him whose original dominion or property is invaded, and endeavoured to be rendered uncertain without his consent, 2 Bl. Com. 405. See also Vin. Abr. Justification (B) and Instit. of Justin. 1. Ii. tit. 1, ss. 27-34.As to the position where a person pays money held by him in a fiduciary character into his own banking account, see Re Hallett'' Estate, (1879) 13 Ch D 696; Sinclair v. Brougham, 1914 AC 398.By the (English) Solicitors Act, 1933 (23 & 24...


Contingent remainder

Contingent remainder, a remainder limited so as to depend on an event or condition which may never happen or be performed, or which may not happen or be performed till after the determination of the preceding estate, Fearne, Cont. Remainders.The legal estate in contingent remainders has been abolished by the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 1. S. 4, whoever, provides that they can take effect as equitable interests, and any instrument creating a contingent remainder has become a settlement under s. 1 (ii) of the (English) S.L. Act, 1925. See SETTLED LAND.In Smith d. Dormer v. Parkhurst, (1740) 18 Vin. Abr. 413; 6 Bro. Cas. Par. 351, the Court held that, in every case where an estate is given to A. for life, the grantor has an interest remaining in him to enter upon the estate, if it should determine by any act of the tenant amounting to a forfeiture; that this right is inherent in the grantor, from the nature of the estate itself, and may be conveyed to trustees; and that, when it is conv...


Disagreement

Disagreement, the refusal by a grantee, lessee, etc., to accept an estate, lease, etc., made to him: the annulling of a thing that had essence before. No estate can be vested in a person against his will, consequently no one can become a grantee, etc., without his agreement: the law implies such an agreement until the contrary is shown, but his disagreement renders the grant, etc., inoperative, see Peacock v. Eastland, (1870) LR 10 Eq 17. If an infant purchases an estate he may, on coming to full age, disagree thereto; and if he does not agree thereto, his heirs, after his death, may waive it. See Co. Litt. 2 b, 3 a, 380 b; 3 Preston's Abstracts, 104; Vin. Abr. 'Disagreement....


Hat-money

Hat-money, a small duty paid to the captain and mariners of a ship, called primage. In the Guidon de la Mer (see that title) it is described as 'la contribution des chausses out pot de vin du maitre.' See PRIMAGE...


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