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Chain letter schemes
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Chain letter schemesLetters with names listed and claims that the recipient of the letter, by putting their name on the list, removing the top name and sending them some nominal amount, then mailing the new list to some number of friends and acquaintances, will receive a lot of riches in the mail. There is usually also a "curse" or bad luck associated with individuals who "break the chain."
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Letter
1) Common law, criminal law. An epistle; a despatch; a written message, usually on paper, which is folded up and sealed, sent by one person to another. 2) Contracts. In the civil law, locator, and in the French law, locateur, loueur, or bailleur, is he who, being the owner of a thing, lets it out to another for hire or compensation. 3) Civil law. The answer which the prince gave to questions of law which had been submitted to him by magistrates, was called letters or epistles. 4) Missive, English law. After a bill has been filed against a peer or peeress, or lord of parliament, a petition is presented to the lord chancellor for his letter, called a letter missive, which requests the defendant to appear and answer to the bill. A neglect to attend to this, places the defendant, in relation to such suit, on the same ground as other defendants, who are not peers, and a subpoena may then issue.
Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
List
A table of cases arranged for trial or argument; as, the trial list, the argument list.
Nominal
Relating to a name.
Will
A will is a legal document in which a person directs how his property is to be distributed after his death. Such documents must be executed in due form and must be duly witnessed.
Receive
To receive. Voluntarily to take from another what is offered.
Mail
This word, derived from the French malle, a trunk, signifies the bag, valise, or other contrivance used in conveying through the post office, letters, packets, newspapers, pamphlets, and the like, from place to place, under the authority of the United States. The things thus carried are also called the mail.
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Chain of custody
In evidentiary matters, the record of possession from original discovery until produced at trial. If the chain of custody is broken or unclear, the Evidence may be challenged as not the original or not in its original condition.
Chairman
The presiding officer of a committee; as, chairman of the committee of ways and means. The person selected to preside over a popular meeting, is also called a chairman or moderator.
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Cestui que via
He for whose life - land is held by another: he whose life measures the duration of an estate.
Cestui que vie
He for whose life land is holden by another person; the latter is called tenant per auter vie, or tenant for another's life.
Ceteris paribus
(United Kingdom) Other things being equal.
Chafewax
English law. An officer in chancery who fits the wax for sealing, to the writs, commissions and other. instruments then made to be issued out.
Chaffers
Anciently signified wares and merchandise; hence the word chaffering, which is yet used for buying and selling, or beating down the price of an article.
Chain letter schemes
Chain of custody
In evidentiary matters, the record of possession from original discovery until produced at trial. If the chain of custody is broken or unclear, the Evidence may be challenged as not the original or not in its original condition.
Chairman
The presiding officer of a committee; as, chairman of the committee of ways and means. The person selected to preside over a popular meeting, is also called a chairman or moderator.
Chaldron
A measure of capacity, equal to fifty-eight and two-third cubic feet nearly.
Challenge
1) It is an exception or objection to a juror. 2) A call by one person upon another to a single combat, which is said to be a challenge to fight.
Challenge for cause
For which a reason is assigned, - to the array or to the polls.
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Letter
1) Common law, criminal law. An epistle; a despatch; a written message, usually on paper, which is folded up and sealed, sent by one person to another. 2) Contracts. In the civil law, locator, and in the French law, locateur, loueur, or bailleur, is he who, being the owner of a thing, lets it out to another for hire or compensation. 3) Civil law. The answer which the prince gave to questions of law which had been submitted to him by magistrates, was called letters or epistles. 4) Missive, English law. After a bill has been filed against a peer or peeress, or lord of parliament, a petition is presented to the lord chancellor for his letter, called a letter missive, which requests the defendant to appear and answer to the bill. A neglect to attend to this, places the defendant, in relation to such suit, on the same ground as other defendants, who are not peers, and a subpoena may then issue.
Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
List
A table of cases arranged for trial or argument; as, the trial list, the argument list.
Nominal
Relating to a name.
Will
A will is a legal document in which a person directs how his property is to be distributed after his death. Such documents must be executed in due form and must be duly witnessed.
Receive
To receive. Voluntarily to take from another what is offered.
This word, derived from the French malle, a trunk, signifies the bag, valise, or other contrivance used in conveying through the post office, letters, packets, newspapers, pamphlets, and the like, from place to place, under the authority of the United States. The things thus carried are also called the mail.
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Chain of custody
In evidentiary matters, the record of possession from original discovery until produced at trial. If the chain of custody is broken or unclear, the Evidence may be challenged as not the original or not in its original condition.
Chairman
The presiding officer of a committee; as, chairman of the committee of ways and means. The person selected to preside over a popular meeting, is also called a chairman or moderator.
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Cestui que via
He for whose life - land is held by another: he whose life measures the duration of an estate.
Cestui que vie
He for whose life land is holden by another person; the latter is called tenant per auter vie, or tenant for another's life.
Ceteris paribus
(United Kingdom) Other things being equal.
Chafewax
English law. An officer in chancery who fits the wax for sealing, to the writs, commissions and other. instruments then made to be issued out.
Chaffers
Anciently signified wares and merchandise; hence the word chaffering, which is yet used for buying and selling, or beating down the price of an article.
Chain letter schemes
Chain of custody
In evidentiary matters, the record of possession from original discovery until produced at trial. If the chain of custody is broken or unclear, the Evidence may be challenged as not the original or not in its original condition.
Chairman
The presiding officer of a committee; as, chairman of the committee of ways and means. The person selected to preside over a popular meeting, is also called a chairman or moderator.
Chaldron
A measure of capacity, equal to fifty-eight and two-third cubic feet nearly.
Challenge
1) It is an exception or objection to a juror. 2) A call by one person upon another to a single combat, which is said to be a challenge to fight.
Challenge for cause
For which a reason is assigned, - to the array or to the polls.
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