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Apportionment






Apportionment

The division and distribution of something into proportionate parts; to each according to their share. For example, if a court ordered apportionment of a contract, the party would be required to perform only to a extent equal to the performance of the other side.

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Division
English law. A particular and ascertained part of a county.

Distribution
By this term is understood the division of an intestate's estate according to law.

Each
Every one of the two or more composing the whole.

Share
A portion of anything. Sometimes shares are equal, at other times they are unequal.

Example
An example is a case put to illustrate a. principle.

Court
A body in government to which the administration of justice is delegated.

Apportionment
The division and distribution of something into proportionate parts; to each according to their share. For example, if a court ordered apportionment of a contract, the party would be required to perform only to a extent equal to the performance of the other side.

Contract
A negotiated oral or written agreement setting forth the terms for an exchange of value between parties (which may be individuals or companies) and under which each party promises to perform an obligation. Certain terms, such as the obligations to be performed and the terms for setting price or compensation must be mutually understood, known in legal lingo as a "meeting of the minds," and promised to by the parties to form a legal contract.

Party
Practice, contracts. When applied to practice, by party is understood either the plaintiff or defendant. In contracts, a party is one or more persons who engage to perform or receive the performance of some agreement.

Performance
The act of doing something; the thing done is also called a performance.



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Appointee
A person who is appointed or selected for a particular purpose; as the appointee under a power, is the person who is to receive the benefit of the trust or power.

Appointment
1) Government, wills. The act by which a person is selected and invested with an office; as the appointment of a judge, of which the making out of his commission is conclusive evidence. 2) By appointment is also understood a public employment, nearly synonymous with office.

Appointor
One authorized by the donor under the statute of uses, to execute a power.

Apportion
To divide and assign according to a definite rule. the division is not necessarily equal but is fair according to the respective interests of the parties involved.

Apposal of sheriffs
English law. The charging them with money received upon account of the Exchequer.

Apposer
English law. An officer of the Court of Exchequer, called the foreign apposer.

Appostille
French law. Postil. In general this means an addition or annotation made in the margin of an act, [contract in writing,] or of some writing



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Appointee
A person who is appointed or selected for a particular purpose; as the appointee under a power, is the person who is to receive the benefit of the trust or power.

Appointment
1) Government, wills. The act by which a person is selected and invested with an office; as the appointment of a judge, of which the making out of his commission is conclusive evidence. 2) By appointment is also understood a public employment, nearly synonymous with office.

Appointor
One authorized by the donor under the statute of uses, to execute a power.

Apportion
To divide and assign according to a definite rule. the division is not necessarily equal but is fair according to the respective interests of the parties involved.

Apportionment

Apposal of sheriffs
English law. The charging them with money received upon account of the Exchequer.

Apposer
English law. An officer of the Court of Exchequer, called the foreign apposer.

Appostille
French law. Postil. In general this means an addition or annotation made in the margin of an act, [contract in writing,] or of some writing

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