Category: T

This phrase is used when transferring property where the new owner agrees to assume to mortgage and secure the former owner against loss.

a trust for the benefit of certain people that is different from a trust that benefits a charitable organisation.

when all parties will consent to a wiretap that is needed in some states for it be lawful.

where you put your own money in a bank in your own name as the trustee for another person.

This term applies to the property and money that is held in a trust and the property and money that is administered by the trustees.

an offer by a person who has bound himself to fulfill a contract to carry out his obligations.

the denying of all conclusions that have been made by the grand jury in an indictment.

This term is applied to the flat denial of the charges brought about by the opposing side.

a term for a postponement for a limited time.

a trust where a trustee does not have any role to play.

evidence that is based on what a dead person has said many years before.

refusing to answer a question on the grounds of self-incrimination. See the fifth amendment.

a term used to revoke a will by tearing up the paper it has been written on.

an attempt to corrupt and intimidate a jury to make it decide the way you want it to.

a term for the power to make a will as prescribed by law.

the term applied when the title to a mortgaged property is kept by the mortgagee until the owner has paid off the mortgage in full.

the presumed ownership of property that is based on the occupancy of the property rather than the legal right to the title.

a trust that will benefit an educational institution or whose money or property will go towards establishing one.

the term given to evidence that does not favour either party and is offered by a disinterested party.

a term that means the restraint, moderation and to refrain from an excess.