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Choice
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ChoicePreference either of a person or thing, to one of several other persons or things. Election.
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Preference
The paying or securing to one or more of his creditors, by an insolvent debtor, the whole or a part of their claim, to the exclusion of the rest. By preference is also meant the right which a creditor has acquired over others to be paid first out of the assets of his debtor, as, when a creditor has obtained a judgment against his debtor which binds the latter's land, he has a preference.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Several
A state of separation or partition. A several agreement or cove-nant, is one entered into by two or more persons separately, each binding himself for the whole; a several action is one in which two or more persons are separately charged; a several inheritance, is one conveyed so as to descend, or come to two persons separately by moieties. Several is usually opposed to joint.
Things
By this word is understood every object, except man, which may become an active subject of right. Code du Canton de Berne, art. 332. In this sense it is opposed, in the language of the law, to the word persons.
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Choice of jurisdiction
In the conflict of laws, the principles and rules applied by courts in order to determine the proper jurisdiction for instituting legal proceedings.
Choice of law
In the conflict of laws, the principles and rules applied by courts in order to determine the law applicable to one or more of the legal issues to be decided.
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Chimin
This is a corruption of the French word chemin, a highway. It is used by old writers.
Chinese interest
Interest for money charged in China.
Chirographer
A word derived from the Greek, which signifies "a writing with a man's hand."
Chirographic creditor
An unsecured creditor.
Chivalry
Ancient English law. This word is derived from the French chevelier, a horseman. It is. the name of a tenure of land by knight's service.
Choice
Choice of jurisdiction
In the conflict of laws, the principles and rules applied by courts in order to determine the proper jurisdiction for instituting legal proceedings.
Choice of law
In the conflict of laws, the principles and rules applied by courts in order to determine the law applicable to one or more of the legal issues to be decided.
Chose in action
A right of property in intangible things or which are not in one's possession, enforceable through legal or court action . Examples may include salaries, debts, insurance claims, shares in companies and pensions.
Christian
One who believes or assents to the doctrines of Christianity, as taught by Jesus Christ in the New Testament, or who, being born of Christian parents or in a Christian country, does not profess any other religion, or does not belong to any one of the other religious divisions of man. Hale v. Everett, 53 N.H. 50 (1868). See Name, 1.
Christianity
The religion established by Jesus Christ.
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Preference
The paying or securing to one or more of his creditors, by an insolvent debtor, the whole or a part of their claim, to the exclusion of the rest. By preference is also meant the right which a creditor has acquired over others to be paid first out of the assets of his debtor, as, when a creditor has obtained a judgment against his debtor which binds the latter's land, he has a preference.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Several
A state of separation or partition. A several agreement or cove-nant, is one entered into by two or more persons separately, each binding himself for the whole; a several action is one in which two or more persons are separately charged; a several inheritance, is one conveyed so as to descend, or come to two persons separately by moieties. Several is usually opposed to joint.
Things
By this word is understood every object, except man, which may become an active subject of right. Code du Canton de Berne, art. 332. In this sense it is opposed, in the language of the law, to the word persons.
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Choice of jurisdiction
In the conflict of laws, the principles and rules applied by courts in order to determine the proper jurisdiction for instituting legal proceedings.
Choice of law
In the conflict of laws, the principles and rules applied by courts in order to determine the law applicable to one or more of the legal issues to be decided.
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Chimin
This is a corruption of the French word chemin, a highway. It is used by old writers.
Chinese interest
Interest for money charged in China.
Chirographer
A word derived from the Greek, which signifies "a writing with a man's hand."
Chirographic creditor
An unsecured creditor.
Chivalry
Ancient English law. This word is derived from the French chevelier, a horseman. It is. the name of a tenure of land by knight's service.
Choice
Choice of jurisdiction
In the conflict of laws, the principles and rules applied by courts in order to determine the proper jurisdiction for instituting legal proceedings.
Choice of law
In the conflict of laws, the principles and rules applied by courts in order to determine the law applicable to one or more of the legal issues to be decided.
Chose in action
A right of property in intangible things or which are not in one's possession, enforceable through legal or court action . Examples may include salaries, debts, insurance claims, shares in companies and pensions.
Christian
One who believes or assents to the doctrines of Christianity, as taught by Jesus Christ in the New Testament, or who, being born of Christian parents or in a Christian country, does not profess any other religion, or does not belong to any one of the other religious divisions of man. Hale v. Everett, 53 N.H. 50 (1868). See Name, 1.
Christianity
The religion established by Jesus Christ.
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