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Beneficiaries
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BeneficiariesAliens on whose behalf a U.S. citizen, legal permanent resident, or employer have filed a petition for such aliens to receive immigration benefits from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Beneficiaries generally receive a lawful status as a result of their relationship to a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or U.S. employer.
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Citizen
In the Roman government, seems to have designated a person who had the freedom of the city, and the right to exercise all political and civil privileges of the government. One who owes to government allegiance, service, and money by way of taxation, and to whom the government, in turn, grants and guarantees liberty of person and of conscience, the right of acquiring and possessing property, of marriage and the social relations, of suit and of defense, and security in person, estate, and reputation.
Legal
That which is according to law. It is used in opposition to equitable, as the legal estate is, in the trustee, the equitable estate in the cestui que trust.
Resident
International law. A minister, according to diplomatic language, of a third order, less in dignity than an ambassador, or an envoy. This term formerly related only to the continuance of the minister's stay, but now it is confined to ministers of this class. 2) Persons. A person coming into a place with intention to establish his domicil or permanent residence, and who in consequence actually remains there. Time is not so essential as the intent, executed by making or beginning an actual establishment, though it be abandoned in a longer, or shorter period.
Employer
One who has engaged or hired the services of another. He is entitled to rights and bound to perform duties.
Petition
An instrument of writing or printing containing a prayer from the person presenting it, called the petitioner, to the body or person to whom it is presented, for the redress of some wrong, or the grant of some favor, which the latter has the right to give.
Receive
To receive. Voluntarily to take from another what is offered.
Immigration
The removing into one place from another.
Beneficiaries
Aliens on whose behalf a U.S. citizen, legal permanent resident, or employer have filed a petition for such aliens to receive immigration benefits from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Beneficiaries generally receive a lawful status as a result of their relationship to a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or U.S. employer.
Lawful
That which is not forbidden by law. Id omne licitum est, quod non est legibus prohibitum, quamobrem, quod, lege permittente, fit, poenam non meretur. To be valid a contract must be lawful.
Status
The condition of persons. It also means estate, because it signifies the condition or circumstances in which the owner stands with regard to his property.
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Benefice
Ecclesiastical law. In its most extended sense, any ecclesiastical preferment or dignity.
Beneficial
Of advantage, profit or interest; as the wife has a beneficial interest in property held by a trustee for her.
Beneficial interest
The right of a party to some profit, distribution, or benefit from a contract or trust. A beneficial interest is distinguished from the rights of someone like a trustee or official who has responsibility to perform and/or title to the assets but does not share in the benefits.
Beneficial owner
A term usually referring to the registered shipowner, but which may also designate another party having the equitable ownership of the vessel where it is operated under the cloak of a trust.
Beneficiary
A broad definition for any person or entity who is to receive assets or profits from an estate, a trust, an insurance policy or any instrument in which there is distribution.
Beneficiary heir
Civil law. Beneficiary heirs are those who have accepted the succession under the benefit of an inventory regularly made. If the heir apprehend that the succession-will be burdened with debts beyond its value, he accepts with benefit of inventory, and in that case he is responsible only for the value of the succession.
Beneficio primo ecclesiastico habendo
English Ecclesiastical law. A writ directed from the king to the chancellor, commanding him to bestow the benefice which shall first fall in the king's gift, above or under a certain value, upon a particular and certain person.
Beneficium competentiae
The right which an insolvent debtor had, among the Romans, on making session of his property for the benefit of his creditors, to retain what was required for him to live honestly according to his condition.
Benefit
This word is used in the same sense as gain and profits.
Benefit of cession
Civil law. The release of a debtor from future imprisonment for his debts, which the law operates in his favor upon the surrender of his property for the benefit of his creditors.
Benefit of clergy
English law. An exemption of the punishment of death which the laws impose on the commission of certain crimes, on the culprit demanding it.
Benefit of discussion
Civil law. The right which a surety has to cause the property of the principal debtor to be applied in satisfaction of the obligation in the first instance.
Benefit of division
In the civil law, which, in this respect, has been adopted in Louisiana, although, when there are several sureties, each one is bound for the whole debt, yet when one of them is sued alone, he has a right to have the debt apportioned among all the solvent sureties on the same obligation, so that he shall be compelled to pay his own share only.
Benefit of inventory
Civil law. The benefit of inventory is the privilege which the heir obtains of being liable for the charges and debts of the succession, only to the value of the effects of the succession, in causing an inventory of these effects within the time and manner proscribed by law.
Benevolence
1) Duty. The doing a kind action to another, from mere good will, without any legal obligation. 2) English law. An aid given by the subjects to the king under a pretended gratuity, but in realty it was an extortion and imposition.
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Bencher
English law. A bencher is a senior in the inns of court, entrusted with their government and direction.
Benefice
Ecclesiastical law. In its most extended sense, any ecclesiastical preferment or dignity.
Beneficial
Of advantage, profit or interest; as the wife has a beneficial interest in property held by a trustee for her.
Beneficial interest
The right of a party to some profit, distribution, or benefit from a contract or trust. A beneficial interest is distinguished from the rights of someone like a trustee or official who has responsibility to perform and/or title to the assets but does not share in the benefits.
Beneficial owner
A term usually referring to the registered shipowner, but which may also designate another party having the equitable ownership of the vessel where it is operated under the cloak of a trust.
Beneficiaries
Beneficiary
A broad definition for any person or entity who is to receive assets or profits from an estate, a trust, an insurance policy or any instrument in which there is distribution.
Beneficiary heir
Civil law. Beneficiary heirs are those who have accepted the succession under the benefit of an inventory regularly made. If the heir apprehend that the succession-will be burdened with debts beyond its value, he accepts with benefit of inventory, and in that case he is responsible only for the value of the succession.
Beneficio primo ecclesiastico habendo
English Ecclesiastical law. A writ directed from the king to the chancellor, commanding him to bestow the benefice which shall first fall in the king's gift, above or under a certain value, upon a particular and certain person.
Beneficium competentiae
The right which an insolvent debtor had, among the Romans, on making session of his property for the benefit of his creditors, to retain what was required for him to live honestly according to his condition.
Benefit
This word is used in the same sense as gain and profits.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Citizen
In the Roman government, seems to have designated a person who had the freedom of the city, and the right to exercise all political and civil privileges of the government. One who owes to government allegiance, service, and money by way of taxation, and to whom the government, in turn, grants and guarantees liberty of person and of conscience, the right of acquiring and possessing property, of marriage and the social relations, of suit and of defense, and security in person, estate, and reputation.
Legal
That which is according to law. It is used in opposition to equitable, as the legal estate is, in the trustee, the equitable estate in the cestui que trust.
Resident
International law. A minister, according to diplomatic language, of a third order, less in dignity than an ambassador, or an envoy. This term formerly related only to the continuance of the minister's stay, but now it is confined to ministers of this class. 2) Persons. A person coming into a place with intention to establish his domicil or permanent residence, and who in consequence actually remains there. Time is not so essential as the intent, executed by making or beginning an actual establishment, though it be abandoned in a longer, or shorter period.
Employer
One who has engaged or hired the services of another. He is entitled to rights and bound to perform duties.
Petition
An instrument of writing or printing containing a prayer from the person presenting it, called the petitioner, to the body or person to whom it is presented, for the redress of some wrong, or the grant of some favor, which the latter has the right to give.
Receive
To receive. Voluntarily to take from another what is offered.
Immigration
The removing into one place from another.
Beneficiaries
Aliens on whose behalf a U.S. citizen, legal permanent resident, or employer have filed a petition for such aliens to receive immigration benefits from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Beneficiaries generally receive a lawful status as a result of their relationship to a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or U.S. employer.
Lawful
That which is not forbidden by law. Id omne licitum est, quod non est legibus prohibitum, quamobrem, quod, lege permittente, fit, poenam non meretur. To be valid a contract must be lawful.
Status
The condition of persons. It also means estate, because it signifies the condition or circumstances in which the owner stands with regard to his property.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Benefice
Ecclesiastical law. In its most extended sense, any ecclesiastical preferment or dignity.
Beneficial
Of advantage, profit or interest; as the wife has a beneficial interest in property held by a trustee for her.
Beneficial interest
The right of a party to some profit, distribution, or benefit from a contract or trust. A beneficial interest is distinguished from the rights of someone like a trustee or official who has responsibility to perform and/or title to the assets but does not share in the benefits.
Beneficial owner
A term usually referring to the registered shipowner, but which may also designate another party having the equitable ownership of the vessel where it is operated under the cloak of a trust.
Beneficiary
A broad definition for any person or entity who is to receive assets or profits from an estate, a trust, an insurance policy or any instrument in which there is distribution.
Beneficiary heir
Civil law. Beneficiary heirs are those who have accepted the succession under the benefit of an inventory regularly made. If the heir apprehend that the succession-will be burdened with debts beyond its value, he accepts with benefit of inventory, and in that case he is responsible only for the value of the succession.
Beneficio primo ecclesiastico habendo
English Ecclesiastical law. A writ directed from the king to the chancellor, commanding him to bestow the benefice which shall first fall in the king's gift, above or under a certain value, upon a particular and certain person.
Beneficium competentiae
The right which an insolvent debtor had, among the Romans, on making session of his property for the benefit of his creditors, to retain what was required for him to live honestly according to his condition.
Benefit
This word is used in the same sense as gain and profits.
Benefit of cession
Civil law. The release of a debtor from future imprisonment for his debts, which the law operates in his favor upon the surrender of his property for the benefit of his creditors.
Benefit of clergy
English law. An exemption of the punishment of death which the laws impose on the commission of certain crimes, on the culprit demanding it.
Benefit of discussion
Civil law. The right which a surety has to cause the property of the principal debtor to be applied in satisfaction of the obligation in the first instance.
Benefit of division
In the civil law, which, in this respect, has been adopted in Louisiana, although, when there are several sureties, each one is bound for the whole debt, yet when one of them is sued alone, he has a right to have the debt apportioned among all the solvent sureties on the same obligation, so that he shall be compelled to pay his own share only.
Benefit of inventory
Civil law. The benefit of inventory is the privilege which the heir obtains of being liable for the charges and debts of the succession, only to the value of the effects of the succession, in causing an inventory of these effects within the time and manner proscribed by law.
Benevolence
1) Duty. The doing a kind action to another, from mere good will, without any legal obligation. 2) English law. An aid given by the subjects to the king under a pretended gratuity, but in realty it was an extortion and imposition.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Bencher
English law. A bencher is a senior in the inns of court, entrusted with their government and direction.
Benefice
Ecclesiastical law. In its most extended sense, any ecclesiastical preferment or dignity.
Beneficial
Of advantage, profit or interest; as the wife has a beneficial interest in property held by a trustee for her.
Beneficial interest
The right of a party to some profit, distribution, or benefit from a contract or trust. A beneficial interest is distinguished from the rights of someone like a trustee or official who has responsibility to perform and/or title to the assets but does not share in the benefits.
Beneficial owner
A term usually referring to the registered shipowner, but which may also designate another party having the equitable ownership of the vessel where it is operated under the cloak of a trust.
Beneficiaries
Beneficiary
A broad definition for any person or entity who is to receive assets or profits from an estate, a trust, an insurance policy or any instrument in which there is distribution.
Beneficiary heir
Civil law. Beneficiary heirs are those who have accepted the succession under the benefit of an inventory regularly made. If the heir apprehend that the succession-will be burdened with debts beyond its value, he accepts with benefit of inventory, and in that case he is responsible only for the value of the succession.
Beneficio primo ecclesiastico habendo
English Ecclesiastical law. A writ directed from the king to the chancellor, commanding him to bestow the benefice which shall first fall in the king's gift, above or under a certain value, upon a particular and certain person.
Beneficium competentiae
The right which an insolvent debtor had, among the Romans, on making session of his property for the benefit of his creditors, to retain what was required for him to live honestly according to his condition.
Benefit
This word is used in the same sense as gain and profits.
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