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Earnest
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EarnestContracts. The payment of a part of the price of goods sold, or the delivery of part of such goods, for the purpose of binding the contract.
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Payment
1) Contracts. That which is given to execute what has been promised; or it is the fulfilment of a promise. Solvere dicimus cum quis fecit, quod facere promisit. But though this is the general acceptation of the word, yet by payment is understood, every way by which the creditor is satisfied or ought to be, and the debtor, liberated for example, an accord and satisfaction will operate as a payment. 2) Pleadings. The name of a plea by which the defendant alleges that he has paid the debt claimed in the declaration; this plea must conclude to the country.
Price
contracts. The consideration in money given for the purchase of a thing.
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.
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E.c. regulation 44-2001
The Regulation of the Council of the European Union on Jurisdiction and the Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters, adopted December 22, 2000, and in force March 1, 2002 for all E.U. countries except Denmark. The Regulation is very similar to the Brussels Convention 1968, supra, which it replaces. Denmark continues to be bound by that Convention.
Each
Every one of the two or more composing the whole.
Eagle
Money. A gold coin of the United States, of the value of ten dollars. It weighs two hundred and fifty-eight grains. Of one thousand parts, nine hundred are of pure gold, and one hundred of all.
Earl
English law. A title of nobility next below a marquis and above a viscount.
Earldom
The seigniory of an earl; the title and dignity of an earl.
Earnest
Ear-witness
One who attests to things he has heard himself.
Easement
A right of passage over a neighbor's land or waterway. An easement is a type of servitude. For every easement, there is a dominant and a servient tenement. Easements are also classified as negative (which prevents the servient land owner from doing certain things) or affirmative easements (the most common, which allows the beneficiary of the easement to do certain things, such as a right-of-way). Although right-of-ways are the most common easements, there are many others such as rights to tunnel under another's land, to use a washroom, to emit smoke or fumes, to pass over with transmission towers, to access a dock and to access a well.
Easements
Estates. An easement is defined to be a liberty privilege or advantage, which one man may have in the lands of another, without profit; it may arise by deed or prescription.
Easter term
English law. One of the four terms of the courts. It is now a fixed term beginning on the 15th of April and ending the 8th of May in every year. It was formerly a movable term.
Eat inde sine die
Words used on an acquittal, or when a prisoner is to be discharged, that he may go without day, that is, that he be dismissed.
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Payment
1) Contracts. That which is given to execute what has been promised; or it is the fulfilment of a promise. Solvere dicimus cum quis fecit, quod facere promisit. But though this is the general acceptation of the word, yet by payment is understood, every way by which the creditor is satisfied or ought to be, and the debtor, liberated for example, an accord and satisfaction will operate as a payment. 2) Pleadings. The name of a plea by which the defendant alleges that he has paid the debt claimed in the declaration; this plea must conclude to the country.
Price
contracts. The consideration in money given for the purchase of a thing.
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.
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E.c. regulation 44-2001
The Regulation of the Council of the European Union on Jurisdiction and the Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters, adopted December 22, 2000, and in force March 1, 2002 for all E.U. countries except Denmark. The Regulation is very similar to the Brussels Convention 1968, supra, which it replaces. Denmark continues to be bound by that Convention.
Each
Every one of the two or more composing the whole.
Eagle
Money. A gold coin of the United States, of the value of ten dollars. It weighs two hundred and fifty-eight grains. Of one thousand parts, nine hundred are of pure gold, and one hundred of all.
Earl
English law. A title of nobility next below a marquis and above a viscount.
Earldom
The seigniory of an earl; the title and dignity of an earl.
Earnest
Ear-witness
One who attests to things he has heard himself.
Easement
A right of passage over a neighbor's land or waterway. An easement is a type of servitude. For every easement, there is a dominant and a servient tenement. Easements are also classified as negative (which prevents the servient land owner from doing certain things) or affirmative easements (the most common, which allows the beneficiary of the easement to do certain things, such as a right-of-way). Although right-of-ways are the most common easements, there are many others such as rights to tunnel under another's land, to use a washroom, to emit smoke or fumes, to pass over with transmission towers, to access a dock and to access a well.
Easements
Estates. An easement is defined to be a liberty privilege or advantage, which one man may have in the lands of another, without profit; it may arise by deed or prescription.
Easter term
English law. One of the four terms of the courts. It is now a fixed term beginning on the 15th of April and ending the 8th of May in every year. It was formerly a movable term.
Eat inde sine die
Words used on an acquittal, or when a prisoner is to be discharged, that he may go without day, that is, that he be dismissed.
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