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Dissolution
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Dissolution1) Contracts. The dissolution of a contract, is the annulling its effects between the contracting parties. 2) Practice. The act of rendering a legal proceeding null, or changing its character.
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Dissolution
1) Contracts. The dissolution of a contract, is the annulling its effects between the contracting parties. 2) Practice. The act of rendering a legal proceeding null, or changing its character.
Contract
A negotiated oral or written agreement setting forth the terms for an exchange of value between parties (which may be individuals or companies) and under which each party promises to perform an obligation. Certain terms, such as the obligations to be performed and the terms for setting price or compensation must be mutually understood, known in legal lingo as a "meeting of the minds," and promised to by the parties to form a legal contract.
Effects
This word used simpliciter is equivalent to property or, worldly substance, and may carry the whole personal estate, when used in a will.
Parties
Contracts. Those persons who engage themselves to do, or not to do the matters and things contained in an agreement.
Practice
The form, manner and order of conducting and carrying on suits or prosecutions in the courts through their various stages, according, to the principles of law, and the rules laid down by the respective courts.
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.
Proceeding
In its general acceptation, this word means the form in which actions are to be brought and defended, the manner of intervening in suits, of conducting them, the mode of deciding them, of opposing judgments and of executing.
Null
Properly, that which does not .exist; that which is not in the nature of things. In a figurative sense it signifies that which has no more effect than if it did not exist.
Character
The qualities impressed by nature or habit on a person, which distinguish him from other persons. These constitute his real character; while the qualities he is supposed to possess constitute his estimated character or reputation. "Reputation" may be evidence of character, but is not character itself. 8 Barb. 608 (1850). That which a person really is, in distinction from that which he may be reputed to be.
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Disseised
Pleading. This is a word with a technical meaning, which, when inserted in an indictment for forcible entry and detainer, has all the force of the words expelled or unlawfully, for the last is superfluous, and the first is implied in the word disseised
Disseisee
Torts. One who is wrongfully put out of possession of his lands.
Disseisor
Torts. One who puts another out of the possession of his lands wrongfully.
Dissent
Contracts. A disagreement to something which has been done.
Dissolution of marriage
A legal judgment that severs a marriage relationship and returns each person to single status.
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Disrate
A term of maritime law where an officer or other seaman is either demoted in rank or deprived of a promotion.
Disseised
Pleading. This is a word with a technical meaning, which, when inserted in an indictment for forcible entry and detainer, has all the force of the words expelled or unlawfully, for the last is superfluous, and the first is implied in the word disseised
Disseisee
Torts. One who is wrongfully put out of possession of his lands.
Disseisor
Torts. One who puts another out of the possession of his lands wrongfully.
Dissent
Contracts. A disagreement to something which has been done.
Dissolution
Dissolution of marriage
A legal judgment that severs a marriage relationship and returns each person to single status.
Distrainor
One who makes a distress of goods and chattels to enforce some right.
Distraint
The right of a landlord to seize the property of a tenant which is in the premises being rented, as collateral against a tenant that has not paid the rent or has otherwise defaulted on the lease, such as wanton disrepair or destruction of the premises. A common way to "distrain" against a tenant is by changing locks and giving notice to the tenant. A legal action to reclaim goods that have been distrained is called replevin.
Distress infinite
English practice. A process commanding the sheriff to distrain a person from time to time, and continually afterwards, by taking his goods by way of pledge, to enforce the performance of something due from the party distrained upon.
Distribution
By this term is understood the division of an intestate's estate according to law.
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Dissolution
1) Contracts. The dissolution of a contract, is the annulling its effects between the contracting parties. 2) Practice. The act of rendering a legal proceeding null, or changing its character.
Contract
A negotiated oral or written agreement setting forth the terms for an exchange of value between parties (which may be individuals or companies) and under which each party promises to perform an obligation. Certain terms, such as the obligations to be performed and the terms for setting price or compensation must be mutually understood, known in legal lingo as a "meeting of the minds," and promised to by the parties to form a legal contract.
Effects
This word used simpliciter is equivalent to property or, worldly substance, and may carry the whole personal estate, when used in a will.
Parties
Contracts. Those persons who engage themselves to do, or not to do the matters and things contained in an agreement.
Practice
The form, manner and order of conducting and carrying on suits or prosecutions in the courts through their various stages, according, to the principles of law, and the rules laid down by the respective courts.
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.
Proceeding
In its general acceptation, this word means the form in which actions are to be brought and defended, the manner of intervening in suits, of conducting them, the mode of deciding them, of opposing judgments and of executing.
Null
Properly, that which does not .exist; that which is not in the nature of things. In a figurative sense it signifies that which has no more effect than if it did not exist.
Character
The qualities impressed by nature or habit on a person, which distinguish him from other persons. These constitute his real character; while the qualities he is supposed to possess constitute his estimated character or reputation. "Reputation" may be evidence of character, but is not character itself. 8 Barb. 608 (1850). That which a person really is, in distinction from that which he may be reputed to be.
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Disseised
Pleading. This is a word with a technical meaning, which, when inserted in an indictment for forcible entry and detainer, has all the force of the words expelled or unlawfully, for the last is superfluous, and the first is implied in the word disseised
Disseisee
Torts. One who is wrongfully put out of possession of his lands.
Disseisor
Torts. One who puts another out of the possession of his lands wrongfully.
Dissent
Contracts. A disagreement to something which has been done.
Dissolution of marriage
A legal judgment that severs a marriage relationship and returns each person to single status.
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Disrate
A term of maritime law where an officer or other seaman is either demoted in rank or deprived of a promotion.
Disseised
Pleading. This is a word with a technical meaning, which, when inserted in an indictment for forcible entry and detainer, has all the force of the words expelled or unlawfully, for the last is superfluous, and the first is implied in the word disseised
Disseisee
Torts. One who is wrongfully put out of possession of his lands.
Disseisor
Torts. One who puts another out of the possession of his lands wrongfully.
Dissent
Contracts. A disagreement to something which has been done.
Dissolution
Dissolution of marriage
A legal judgment that severs a marriage relationship and returns each person to single status.
Distrainor
One who makes a distress of goods and chattels to enforce some right.
Distraint
The right of a landlord to seize the property of a tenant which is in the premises being rented, as collateral against a tenant that has not paid the rent or has otherwise defaulted on the lease, such as wanton disrepair or destruction of the premises. A common way to "distrain" against a tenant is by changing locks and giving notice to the tenant. A legal action to reclaim goods that have been distrained is called replevin.
Distress infinite
English practice. A process commanding the sheriff to distrain a person from time to time, and continually afterwards, by taking his goods by way of pledge, to enforce the performance of something due from the party distrained upon.
Distribution
By this term is understood the division of an intestate's estate according to law.
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