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voidable
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Void and voidable
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Voidable contract
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voidable preference
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preference
that gives the creditor more than the creditor would otherwise receive (as under a bankruptcy settlement) called also voidable preference compare antecedent debt at debt, fraudulent conveyance general assignment at assignment NOTE: Preferences can be voided by
Confirmation
Confirmation, a species of conveyance by which a voidable estate is made valid and unavoidable, or by which a particular estate is increased. Estates which are void
Infant
cannot speak], a person under twenty-one years of age, whose acts are in many cases either void or voidable. See AGE. At Common Law, the contracts of infants are divided into three classes: 1st. Those which are
Marriage
8, c. 16, s. 2), i.e., the degrees as setout in the Book of Common Prayer, were merely voidable by suit in the Ecclesiastical Court during the life of the parties. Children resulting from such marriages were
Title, Covenants for
value as mentioned, the lease creating the term is valid, unforfeited, unsurrendered, and in nowise become void or voidable, and that the obligations under the lease have been performed. In these provisions A and B purchase for
Void
erosion of the distinction between juris-dictional errors and non-jurisdictional errors has, correspondingly eroded the distinction between void and voidable decision. The courts have become increasingly impatient with the distinction, to the extent that (1) All official decisions
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