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Assignment of dower
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Assignment of dowerThe act by which the rights of a widow, in her deceased hushand's real estate, are ascertained and set apart for her benefit.
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Widow
An unmarried woman whose husband is dead.
Real
1) A term which is applied to land in its most enlarged signification. Real security, therefore, means the security of mortgages or other incumbrances affecting lands. 2) In the civil law, real has not the same meaning as it has in the common law. There it signifies what relates to a thing, whether it be movable or immovable, lands or goods; thus, a real injury is one which is done to a thing, as a trespass to property, whether it be real or personal in the common law sense. A real statute is one which relates to a thing, in contradistinction to such as relate to a person.
Estate
A right or interest in property or the property of a deceased person.
Benefit
This word is used in the same sense as gain and profits.
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Assign
To give, to transfer responsibility, to another. The assignee (sometimes also called "assigns") is the person who receives the right or property being given and the assignor is the person giving.
Assignation
Scotch law. The ceding or yielding a thing to another of which intimation must be made.
Assignee
One to whom an assignment has been made.
Assignment
The release by an afdc recipient of all rights to support arrearages owed the recipient and of the right to receive current child support as the result of the receipt of afdc.
Assignment of errors
The act by which the plaintiff in error points out the errors in the record of which he complains
Assignment of rights and delegation of duties clause
Assignment is the transfer of rights under a contract, such as the right to be paid, to a third party. Delegation is the transfer of obligations under a contract to a third party. The delegation of a duty to perform personal services, such as writing a manuscript, is often limited by contract. Different from subcontracting because in delegation, the transferring party does not remain liable for performance on the contract.
Assignor
One who makes an assignment; one who transfers property to another.
Assigns
Contracts. Those to whom rights have been transmitted by particular title, such as sale, gift, legacy, transfer, or cession.
Assises of jerusalem
The name of a code of feudal law, made at a general assembly of lords, after the conquest of Jerusalem.
Assisors
Scotch law. This term corresponds nearly to that of jurors.
Assistance
A French term, reflecting the civilian equivalent of salvage, based on the Roman law concept of negotiorum gestio (management of the business of another), whereby the "assistant" is remunerated for his efforts to save ship and cargo, regardless of whether or not those efforts are successful. In French internal law, "assistance", referring to salvage of a ship, cargo, and/or persons in peril at sea, is distinguished from "sauvetage".
Assize of mort d' ancestor
The name, of an ancient writ. It might have been sued out by one whose father, mother, brother, died seised of lands, and tonements, which they held in fee , and which, after their death, a stranger abated.
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Asseveration
The proof which a man gives of the truth of what be says, by appealing to his conscience as a witness.
Assign
To give, to transfer responsibility, to another. The assignee (sometimes also called "assigns") is the person who receives the right or property being given and the assignor is the person giving.
Assignation
Scotch law. The ceding or yielding a thing to another of which intimation must be made.
Assignee
One to whom an assignment has been made.
Assignment
The release by an afdc recipient of all rights to support arrearages owed the recipient and of the right to receive current child support as the result of the receipt of afdc.
Assignment of dower
Assignment of errors
The act by which the plaintiff in error points out the errors in the record of which he complains
Assignment of rights and delegation of duties clause
Assignment is the transfer of rights under a contract, such as the right to be paid, to a third party. Delegation is the transfer of obligations under a contract to a third party. The delegation of a duty to perform personal services, such as writing a manuscript, is often limited by contract. Different from subcontracting because in delegation, the transferring party does not remain liable for performance on the contract.
Assignor
One who makes an assignment; one who transfers property to another.
Assigns
Contracts. Those to whom rights have been transmitted by particular title, such as sale, gift, legacy, transfer, or cession.
Assises of jerusalem
The name of a code of feudal law, made at a general assembly of lords, after the conquest of Jerusalem.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Widow
An unmarried woman whose husband is dead.
Real
1) A term which is applied to land in its most enlarged signification. Real security, therefore, means the security of mortgages or other incumbrances affecting lands. 2) In the civil law, real has not the same meaning as it has in the common law. There it signifies what relates to a thing, whether it be movable or immovable, lands or goods; thus, a real injury is one which is done to a thing, as a trespass to property, whether it be real or personal in the common law sense. A real statute is one which relates to a thing, in contradistinction to such as relate to a person.
Estate
A right or interest in property or the property of a deceased person.
Benefit
This word is used in the same sense as gain and profits.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Assign
To give, to transfer responsibility, to another. The assignee (sometimes also called "assigns") is the person who receives the right or property being given and the assignor is the person giving.
Assignation
Scotch law. The ceding or yielding a thing to another of which intimation must be made.
Assignee
One to whom an assignment has been made.
Assignment
The release by an afdc recipient of all rights to support arrearages owed the recipient and of the right to receive current child support as the result of the receipt of afdc.
Assignment of errors
The act by which the plaintiff in error points out the errors in the record of which he complains
Assignment of rights and delegation of duties clause
Assignment is the transfer of rights under a contract, such as the right to be paid, to a third party. Delegation is the transfer of obligations under a contract to a third party. The delegation of a duty to perform personal services, such as writing a manuscript, is often limited by contract. Different from subcontracting because in delegation, the transferring party does not remain liable for performance on the contract.
Assignor
One who makes an assignment; one who transfers property to another.
Assigns
Contracts. Those to whom rights have been transmitted by particular title, such as sale, gift, legacy, transfer, or cession.
Assises of jerusalem
The name of a code of feudal law, made at a general assembly of lords, after the conquest of Jerusalem.
Assisors
Scotch law. This term corresponds nearly to that of jurors.
Assistance
A French term, reflecting the civilian equivalent of salvage, based on the Roman law concept of negotiorum gestio (management of the business of another), whereby the "assistant" is remunerated for his efforts to save ship and cargo, regardless of whether or not those efforts are successful. In French internal law, "assistance", referring to salvage of a ship, cargo, and/or persons in peril at sea, is distinguished from "sauvetage".
Assize of mort d' ancestor
The name, of an ancient writ. It might have been sued out by one whose father, mother, brother, died seised of lands, and tonements, which they held in fee , and which, after their death, a stranger abated.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Asseveration
The proof which a man gives of the truth of what be says, by appealing to his conscience as a witness.
Assign
To give, to transfer responsibility, to another. The assignee (sometimes also called "assigns") is the person who receives the right or property being given and the assignor is the person giving.
Assignation
Scotch law. The ceding or yielding a thing to another of which intimation must be made.
Assignee
One to whom an assignment has been made.
Assignment
The release by an afdc recipient of all rights to support arrearages owed the recipient and of the right to receive current child support as the result of the receipt of afdc.
Assignment of dower
Assignment of errors
The act by which the plaintiff in error points out the errors in the record of which he complains
Assignment of rights and delegation of duties clause
Assignment is the transfer of rights under a contract, such as the right to be paid, to a third party. Delegation is the transfer of obligations under a contract to a third party. The delegation of a duty to perform personal services, such as writing a manuscript, is often limited by contract. Different from subcontracting because in delegation, the transferring party does not remain liable for performance on the contract.
Assignor
One who makes an assignment; one who transfers property to another.
Assigns
Contracts. Those to whom rights have been transmitted by particular title, such as sale, gift, legacy, transfer, or cession.
Assises of jerusalem
The name of a code of feudal law, made at a general assembly of lords, after the conquest of Jerusalem.
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