NIGERIAN SCAM
Mail and email fraud based on false pretenses tempting people to send money or disclosed banking account information. The scam is someone inherited a large sum of money and needs assistance to
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Mail and email fraud based on false pretenses tempting people to send money or disclosed banking account information. The scam is someone inherited a large sum of money and needs assistance to
Overhead costs may occur but not affect a contract’s prices when a contract changes.
A continuous factors’ series suffering abrupt, disconnected interruptions. These changes affect value distribution all along the continuum, often skipping values in an upward or downward direction. Also refer to Joseph Effect, anti-persistence,
A dealer who does not expose his trading to the market and just gives it to his clients. This is illegal.
An agreement clause between an owner and a prospective buyer to suspend all other purchase negotiations for a stated time period. In other words, the seller agrees to stop seeking other acquisition
That degree of diligence which a person placed in a particularsituation must exercise in order to entitle him to the protection of the law in respect torights or claims growing out of
A term sometimes applied to the aggregate of the property owned directly by a nation. Civ. Code La. I’.tOO. art. 4NO.
Lat. In the civil law. 1’he interruption of a usucaption, by some act on the part of the real owner. Calvin.
A receipt, acquittance, or release, which may serve as evidence of pay- ment or discharge of a debt, or to certify the correctness of accounts. An account- book containing the acquittances or
Ill old records. That may lie plowed or manured; tillable. Cowell; Blount.
To force poison into the slomach of another; to compel another by threats of violence to swallow poison; to furnish poison to another for the purpose and with the intention that the
In English law. That kind of allegiance which is due from all men born within tlie king’s dominions, immediately upon their birth, which is intrinsic and perpetual, and cannot be divested by
A notice given bv defendant to a plaintiff that he appears in the action in person or by attorney.
Any formation or product of nature (as opposed to structures or erections made by man) which may serve to define and fix one or more of the lines inclosing an estate or
A bastard ; a child born out of lawful wedlock. But in a statute declaring that adopted shall have all the rights of “natural” children. the word “natural” was used in the
L. Lat. In old English and Scotch law. A distraining or taking of a distress ; an impounding. Spelman.
That quality or character which arises from the fact of a person’s belonging to a nation or state. Nationality determines the political status of the individual, especially with reference to allegiance; while
In old practice. Bad; defective. “The bar is naught.” 1 Leon. 77. “The avowry is naught” 5 Mod. 73. “The plea is undoubtedly naught.” 10 Mod. 329. See 11 Mod. 179.
The general issue in a formedon, now abolished. It denied the gift in tail to have been made in manner and form as alleged; and was therefore the proper plea, if the
The act of killing.