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Dealings
DealingsTraffic, trade; the transaction of business between two or more persons. RELATED TERMS-------------------------------------- Traffic Commerce, trade, sale or exchange of merchandise, bills, money and the like. Trade In its most extensive signification this word includes all sorts of dealings by way of Bale or exchange. In a more limited sense it signifies the dealings in a particular business, as the India trade; by trade is also understood the business of a particular mechanic, hence boys are said to be put apprentices to learn a trade, as the trade of a carpenter, shoemaker, and the like. Transaction Contracts, civil law. An agreement between two or more persons, who for the purpose of preventing or putting an end to a law-suit, adjust their differences by mutual consent, in the manner which they agree on; in Louisiana this contract must be reduced to writing. SIMILAR TERMS-------------------------------------- PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS-------------------------------------- Dead-born Descent, persons. Children dead-born are considered, in law, as if they had never been conceived, so that no one can claim a title, by descent, through such dead-born child. Deadfreight A sum of damages payable by the charterer to the shipowner or intermediate charterer where the charterer loads less cargo than promised in the charterparty. Deadlock By splitting voting rights of shareholders and directors equally between two interests in a joint venture company, each party can prevent those activities of which it does not approve. If a dispute blows up, the deadlock is difficult to break without one of the parties being bought out. Dead-pledge A mortgage of lands or goods - mortuum vadium. Deaf, dumb, and blind A man born deaf, dumb, and blind, is considered an idiot. Dealings Dean Ecclesiastical law. An ecelesiastictl officer, who derives his name from the fact that he presides over ten canons, or, prebondaries, at least. Death Cessation of life; extinction of political existence. Death bed Scotch law. The incapacity to exercise the power of disposing of one's property after being attacked with a mortal disease. Death's part English law. That portion of the personal estate of a deceased man which remained after his wife and children had received their reasonable parts from his estate Debenture A certificate given, in pursuance of law, by the collector of a port of entry, for a certain sum, due by the United States, payable at a time therein mentioned, to an importer for drawhack of duties on merchandise imported and exported by him, provided the duties arising on the importation of the said merchandise shall have been discharged prior to the time aforesaid. We thank you for using the Juridical Dictionary to search for Dealings. If you have a better definition for Dealings than the one presented here, please let us know by making use of the suggest a term option. This definition of Dealings may be disputed by other professionals. Our attempt is to provide easy definitions on Dealings and any other medical topic for the public at large.
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