SCALE-DOWN AGREEMENT
an agreement where the creditors agree to accept less than the full amount that is due to them as the full payment for their individual claims.
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an agreement where the creditors agree to accept less than the full amount that is due to them as the full payment for their individual claims.
a term that describes the agreement between the insurer an the insured to cancel a policy and make a new policy.
the term that means to not show in court when you are supposed. Bail money is forfeited.
This a Latin phrase that means secretly, privately or clandestinely.
the power and the authority to make and enforce the law of the land. See inherent power.
a term that is used for the selecting of people who will serve on a jury.
a term used to describe what happens when a suspect is detained and then searched for any weapons.
a boycott against a company that does business with a company in dispute with the union.
This term is used for hearsay evidence that a person has learned from another person and has not seen or heard themselves.
This term to temporarily take a license away from a person for a set period of time.
the calculation of a future earning of a person who has died and is used by a jury to award damages to the heirs.
a federal law that provides for establishing universal state and federal insurance benefits, unemployed insurance and other benefits for its citizens.
the name that is given to legal action that stops another cause of action from being determined.
a principle that states a person may be cleared of negligence if he encounters a danger that is not of his own making.
a term for a statement that is made to serve your own purpose.
the name that is given to the attorney who is employed to assist a state or a federal attorney general in a prosecution case.
These are the documents that are carried by all ships on the high seas that shows nationality, port of origin, ports of call, cargo and the proof of it complying with navigation
a term that is applied to the happening at the same time or the same instant.
a term where a person sells stocks that are not really owned by the seller where the seller hopes to cover the sale by buying it later at a lower price.
the term that is used to describe the county seat or the capital of a state or the federal government.
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