Category: S

the term used for buying securities from insider information giving a favourable position that is not granted to the public.

This s something that a defendant can call upon when defending himself. The plaintiff is given notice of any special matter to be introduced.

a term for describing the location of something.

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.

a term that applies to the assistance, aid, comfort, companionship and physical relations that a wife usually affords to her husband.

a term for the formal delivery, to the plaintiff or his attorney of the answer to the charges.

a term that means to protect your own property or person an not resort to legal actions to do so.

This means to fulfil a request, pay off a debt or to discharge an obligation. See satisfaction.

a the law that concerns a person or a group of people. See statute, personal.

the term given to the explanation in a statute of confusing or an ambiguous provision in an earlier statute.

the concept that says that 2 or more people are free to make an agreement that they wish and it will be respected and enforced.

1. A codicil in a will that replaces an old beneficiary with a new one. 2. To gift over by giving a gift of a bequest to another person as the original

the name that is given to a company whose business it to assume the responsibility and payment guarantee for the obligations of another person or company.

the name that is given to a federal agency that regulates and supervises the securities industry.

a law that gives the right to people and corporations to do a thing that they were not previously allowed to do.

the term that is applied to a particle of evidence that may be insignificant.

the term that describes a sale that is made to avoid legal obligations to a person’s creditors.

a term for a statement that is made to serve your own purpose.

a term that means the actual possession of land and is the same as seisin in fact and an actual seisin.

this is an event that has taken place after another event.