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Arrears
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ArrearsA debt that is not paid on the due date adds up and accumulates as "arrears". For example, if you do not pay your rent, the debt still exists and is referred to as "arrears". The same word is used to describe child or spousal maintenance or support which is not paid by the due date.
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Debt
Whatever one owes. A sum of money due by certain and express agreement.
Date
Latin datum, a thing given. The primary signification is time "given" or specified, - in some way ascertained and fixed. In the ancient form the clause ran: datum apud, etc., specifying the place and time; thence called the datum clause, afterward shortened to "date".
Example
An example is a case put to illustrate a. principle.
Rent
Estates, contracts. A certain profit in money, provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements in retribution for the use.
Word
Construction. One or more syllables which when united convey an idea a single part of speech.
Child
Generally, an unmarried person under 21 years of age who is: a child born in wedlock; a stepchild, provided that the child was under 18 years of age at the time that the marriage creating the stepchild relationship occurred; a legitimated child, provided that the child was legitimated while in the legal custody of the legitimating parent; a child born out of wedlock, when a benefit is sought on the basis of its relationship with its mother, or to its father if the father has or had a bona fide relationship with the child; a child adopted while under 16 years of age who has resided since adoption in the legal custody of the adopting parents for at least 2 years; or an orphan, under 16 years of age, who has been adopted abroad by a U.S. citizen or has an immediate-relative visa petition submitted in his/her behalf and is coming to the United States for adoption by a U.S. citizen.
Maintenance
1) Crimes. A malicious, or at least, officious interference in a suit in which the offender has no interest, to assist one of the parties to it against the other, with money or advice to prosecute or defend the action, without any authority of law. 2) Quasi contracts. The support which one person, who is bound by law to do so, gives to another for his living; for example, a father is bound to find maintenance for his children; and a child is required by law to main-tain his father or mother when they cannot support themselves, and he has ability to maintain them.
Support
The right of support is an easement which one man, either by contract or prescription, enjoys, to rest the joists or timbers of his house upon the wall of an adjoining building, owned by another person.
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Arrearage
Money remaining unpaid after it becomes due as rent unpaid interest remaining due; a sum of money remaining in the hands of an accountant.
Arrearages
A term used to describe the amount of money less the court order amount of support. if a spouse does not pay the full amount of support, the missing amount is considered the arrearages.
Arrest
To stop; to seize; to deprive one of his liberty by virtue of legal authority.
Arrest of judgment
The act of a court by which the judges refuse to give judgment, because upon the face of the record, it appears that the plaintiff is not entitled to it.
Arrestandis bonis ne dissipentur
In the English law, a writ for him whose cattle or goods, being taken during a controversy, are likely, to be wasted and consumed.
Arrestee
Law of Scotland. He in whose hands a debt, or property in his possession, has been arrested by a regular arrestment.
Arrester
Law of Scotland. One who sues out and obtains an arrestment of his debtor's goods or movable obligations.
Arrestment
Scotch law. 1) By this term is sometimes meant the securing of a criminal's person till trial, or that of a debtor till he give security judicio sisti. 2) It is also the order of a judge, by which he who isdebtor in a movable obligation to the arrester's debtor, is probibited to make payment or delivery till the debt due to the arrester be paid or secured
Arret
French law. An arret is a judgment, sentence, or decree of, a court of competent jurisdiction. Saisie-arret is an attachment of property in the hands of a third person.
Arretted, arrectatus
Convened before a judge and charged with a crime.
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Arraignment
In USA criminal law, the formal appearance of an accused person to hear, and to receive a copy of, the charge against him or her, in the presence of a judge, and to then enter a plea of guilty or not guilty. The arraignment is the final preparatory step before the criminal trial.
Arras
Spanish law. The property contributed by the hushand, ad sustinenda onera matrimonii, is called arras. The hushand is under no obligation to give arras, but it is a donation purely voluntary. He is not permitted to give in arras more than a tenth of his property. The arras is the exclusive property of the wife, subject to the hushand's usufruct during his life.
Array
Practice. The whole body of jurors summoned to attend a court, as they are arrayed or arranged on the panel.
Arrearage
Money remaining unpaid after it becomes due as rent unpaid interest remaining due; a sum of money remaining in the hands of an accountant.
Arrearages
A term used to describe the amount of money less the court order amount of support. if a spouse does not pay the full amount of support, the missing amount is considered the arrearages.
Arrears
Arrest
To stop; to seize; to deprive one of his liberty by virtue of legal authority.
Arrest of judgment
The act of a court by which the judges refuse to give judgment, because upon the face of the record, it appears that the plaintiff is not entitled to it.
Arrestandis bonis ne dissipentur
In the English law, a writ for him whose cattle or goods, being taken during a controversy, are likely, to be wasted and consumed.
Arrestee
Law of Scotland. He in whose hands a debt, or property in his possession, has been arrested by a regular arrestment.
Arrester
Law of Scotland. One who sues out and obtains an arrestment of his debtor's goods or movable obligations.
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Debt
Whatever one owes. A sum of money due by certain and express agreement.
Date
Latin datum, a thing given. The primary signification is time "given" or specified, - in some way ascertained and fixed. In the ancient form the clause ran: datum apud, etc., specifying the place and time; thence called the datum clause, afterward shortened to "date".
Example
An example is a case put to illustrate a. principle.
Rent
Estates, contracts. A certain profit in money, provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements in retribution for the use.
Word
Construction. One or more syllables which when united convey an idea a single part of speech.
Child
Generally, an unmarried person under 21 years of age who is: a child born in wedlock; a stepchild, provided that the child was under 18 years of age at the time that the marriage creating the stepchild relationship occurred; a legitimated child, provided that the child was legitimated while in the legal custody of the legitimating parent; a child born out of wedlock, when a benefit is sought on the basis of its relationship with its mother, or to its father if the father has or had a bona fide relationship with the child; a child adopted while under 16 years of age who has resided since adoption in the legal custody of the adopting parents for at least 2 years; or an orphan, under 16 years of age, who has been adopted abroad by a U.S. citizen or has an immediate-relative visa petition submitted in his/her behalf and is coming to the United States for adoption by a U.S. citizen.
Maintenance
1) Crimes. A malicious, or at least, officious interference in a suit in which the offender has no interest, to assist one of the parties to it against the other, with money or advice to prosecute or defend the action, without any authority of law. 2) Quasi contracts. The support which one person, who is bound by law to do so, gives to another for his living; for example, a father is bound to find maintenance for his children; and a child is required by law to main-tain his father or mother when they cannot support themselves, and he has ability to maintain them.
Support
The right of support is an easement which one man, either by contract or prescription, enjoys, to rest the joists or timbers of his house upon the wall of an adjoining building, owned by another person.
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Arrearage
Money remaining unpaid after it becomes due as rent unpaid interest remaining due; a sum of money remaining in the hands of an accountant.
Arrearages
A term used to describe the amount of money less the court order amount of support. if a spouse does not pay the full amount of support, the missing amount is considered the arrearages.
Arrest
To stop; to seize; to deprive one of his liberty by virtue of legal authority.
Arrest of judgment
The act of a court by which the judges refuse to give judgment, because upon the face of the record, it appears that the plaintiff is not entitled to it.
Arrestandis bonis ne dissipentur
In the English law, a writ for him whose cattle or goods, being taken during a controversy, are likely, to be wasted and consumed.
Arrestee
Law of Scotland. He in whose hands a debt, or property in his possession, has been arrested by a regular arrestment.
Arrester
Law of Scotland. One who sues out and obtains an arrestment of his debtor's goods or movable obligations.
Arrestment
Scotch law. 1) By this term is sometimes meant the securing of a criminal's person till trial, or that of a debtor till he give security judicio sisti. 2) It is also the order of a judge, by which he who isdebtor in a movable obligation to the arrester's debtor, is probibited to make payment or delivery till the debt due to the arrester be paid or secured
Arret
French law. An arret is a judgment, sentence, or decree of, a court of competent jurisdiction. Saisie-arret is an attachment of property in the hands of a third person.
Arretted, arrectatus
Convened before a judge and charged with a crime.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Arraignment
In USA criminal law, the formal appearance of an accused person to hear, and to receive a copy of, the charge against him or her, in the presence of a judge, and to then enter a plea of guilty or not guilty. The arraignment is the final preparatory step before the criminal trial.
Arras
Spanish law. The property contributed by the hushand, ad sustinenda onera matrimonii, is called arras. The hushand is under no obligation to give arras, but it is a donation purely voluntary. He is not permitted to give in arras more than a tenth of his property. The arras is the exclusive property of the wife, subject to the hushand's usufruct during his life.
Array
Practice. The whole body of jurors summoned to attend a court, as they are arrayed or arranged on the panel.
Arrearage
Money remaining unpaid after it becomes due as rent unpaid interest remaining due; a sum of money remaining in the hands of an accountant.
Arrearages
A term used to describe the amount of money less the court order amount of support. if a spouse does not pay the full amount of support, the missing amount is considered the arrearages.
Arrears
Arrest
To stop; to seize; to deprive one of his liberty by virtue of legal authority.
Arrest of judgment
The act of a court by which the judges refuse to give judgment, because upon the face of the record, it appears that the plaintiff is not entitled to it.
Arrestandis bonis ne dissipentur
In the English law, a writ for him whose cattle or goods, being taken during a controversy, are likely, to be wasted and consumed.
Arrestee
Law of Scotland. He in whose hands a debt, or property in his possession, has been arrested by a regular arrestment.
Arrester
Law of Scotland. One who sues out and obtains an arrestment of his debtor's goods or movable obligations.
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