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Secured documents or pouches lodging usually requiring a key for access, this is an opening in a building’s exterior wall, as in a bank,
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Secured documents or pouches lodging usually requiring a key for access, this is an opening in a building’s exterior wall, as in a bank,
Pays back ‘in kind’, but has no monetary consideration. Used mainly to avoid effort duplication, it is typically used by a government that has developed a new but classified technology and a
The filer has no assets available to creditors to satisfy outstanding debts in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing in this type of situation.
When insurance policies are not properly arranged and do not give enough protection.
A term meaning our account. It is used by foreign banks to handle its local currency.
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.
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
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
he designation of an individual person, or of a firm or corporation. In law a man cannot have more than one Christian name. Rex v. Newman, 1 Ld. Raytn. 062. As to
In Spanish and Mexican law. Nationalization. “The na- tionalization of property is an act which denotes that it has become that of the nation by some process of law, whereby private individuals
The freight of passengers in a ship. Johnson; Webster.
Lat. In American practice. A writ similar to that of ne exeat regno, (q. v..) available to the plaintiff in a civil suit, under some circum- stances, when the defendant is about
Things indispensable, or things proper and useful, for the sustenance of human life. This is a relative term, and its meaning will contract or expand according to the situation and social condition