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Open-ended agreement
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Open-ended agreementAn agreement or contract which does not have an ending date but which will continue for as long as certain conditions, identified in the agreement, exist.
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Agreement
A verbal or written resolution of disputes.
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.
Date
Latin datum, a thing given. The primary signification is time "given" or specified, - in some way ascertained and fixed. In the ancient form the clause ran: datum apud, etc., specifying the place and time; thence called the datum clause, afterward shortened to "date".
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.
Continue
The act of postponing a scheduled court hearing to a later time.
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Open court
The term sufficiently explains its meaning. By the constitution of some states, and by the laws and practice of all the others, the courts are required to be kept open; that is, free access is admitted in courts to all persons who have a desire to enter there, while it can be done without creating disorder.
Open policy
An open policy is one in which the amount of the interest of the insured is not fixed by the policy, and is to be ascertained in case of loss.
Opening a judgment
The act of the court by which a judgment is so far annulled that it cannot be executed, but which still retains some qualities of a judgment; as, for example, its binding operation or lien upon the real estate of the defendant.
Opening statement
A lawyer's opening remarks in the beginning of a trial. they are addressed to the judge.
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Onerous gift
Civil law. The gift of a thing subject to certain charges which the giver has imposed on the donee.
Onus
Latin: the burden. It is usually used in the context of evidence. The onus of proof in criminal cases lies with the state. It is the state that has the burden of proving beyond reasonable doubt. In civil cases, the onus of proof lies with the plaintiff who must prove his case by balance of probabilities. So "onus" refers both to the party with the burden, and to the scope of that burden, the latter depending whether the context is criminal or civil.
Onus probandi
Evidence. The burden of the proof.
Open court
The term sufficiently explains its meaning. By the constitution of some states, and by the laws and practice of all the others, the courts are required to be kept open; that is, free access is admitted in courts to all persons who have a desire to enter there, while it can be done without creating disorder.
Open policy
An open policy is one in which the amount of the interest of the insured is not fixed by the policy, and is to be ascertained in case of loss.
Open-ended agreement
Opening a judgment
The act of the court by which a judgment is so far annulled that it cannot be executed, but which still retains some qualities of a judgment; as, for example, its binding operation or lien upon the real estate of the defendant.
Opening statement
A lawyer's opening remarks in the beginning of a trial. they are addressed to the judge.
Operation of law
This term is applied to those rights which are cast upon a party by the law, without any act of his own; as, the right to an estate of one who dies intestate, is cast upon the heir at law, by operation of law; when a lessee for life enfeoffs him in reversion, or when the lessee and lessor join in a feoffment, or when a lessee for life or years accepts a new lease or demise from the lessor, there is a surrender of the first lease by operation of law.
Operative
A workman; one employed to perform labor for another.
Opinion
1) Practice. A declaration by a counsel to his client of what the law is, according to his judgment, on a statement of facts submitted to him. The paper upon which an opinion is written is, by a figure of speech, also called an opinion. 2) Evidence. An inference made, or conclusion drawn, by a witness from facts known to him. 3) Judgment. A collection of reasons delivered by a judge for giving the judgment he is about to pronounce the judgment itself is sometimes called an opinion.
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Agreement
A verbal or written resolution of disputes.
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.
Date
Latin datum, a thing given. The primary signification is time "given" or specified, - in some way ascertained and fixed. In the ancient form the clause ran: datum apud, etc., specifying the place and time; thence called the datum clause, afterward shortened to "date".
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.
Continue
The act of postponing a scheduled court hearing to a later time.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Open court
The term sufficiently explains its meaning. By the constitution of some states, and by the laws and practice of all the others, the courts are required to be kept open; that is, free access is admitted in courts to all persons who have a desire to enter there, while it can be done without creating disorder.
Open policy
An open policy is one in which the amount of the interest of the insured is not fixed by the policy, and is to be ascertained in case of loss.
Opening a judgment
The act of the court by which a judgment is so far annulled that it cannot be executed, but which still retains some qualities of a judgment; as, for example, its binding operation or lien upon the real estate of the defendant.
Opening statement
A lawyer's opening remarks in the beginning of a trial. they are addressed to the judge.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Onerous gift
Civil law. The gift of a thing subject to certain charges which the giver has imposed on the donee.
Onus
Latin: the burden. It is usually used in the context of evidence. The onus of proof in criminal cases lies with the state. It is the state that has the burden of proving beyond reasonable doubt. In civil cases, the onus of proof lies with the plaintiff who must prove his case by balance of probabilities. So "onus" refers both to the party with the burden, and to the scope of that burden, the latter depending whether the context is criminal or civil.
Onus probandi
Evidence. The burden of the proof.
Open court
The term sufficiently explains its meaning. By the constitution of some states, and by the laws and practice of all the others, the courts are required to be kept open; that is, free access is admitted in courts to all persons who have a desire to enter there, while it can be done without creating disorder.
Open policy
An open policy is one in which the amount of the interest of the insured is not fixed by the policy, and is to be ascertained in case of loss.
Open-ended agreement
Opening a judgment
The act of the court by which a judgment is so far annulled that it cannot be executed, but which still retains some qualities of a judgment; as, for example, its binding operation or lien upon the real estate of the defendant.
Opening statement
A lawyer's opening remarks in the beginning of a trial. they are addressed to the judge.
Operation of law
This term is applied to those rights which are cast upon a party by the law, without any act of his own; as, the right to an estate of one who dies intestate, is cast upon the heir at law, by operation of law; when a lessee for life enfeoffs him in reversion, or when the lessee and lessor join in a feoffment, or when a lessee for life or years accepts a new lease or demise from the lessor, there is a surrender of the first lease by operation of law.
Operative
A workman; one employed to perform labor for another.
Opinion
1) Practice. A declaration by a counsel to his client of what the law is, according to his judgment, on a statement of facts submitted to him. The paper upon which an opinion is written is, by a figure of speech, also called an opinion. 2) Evidence. An inference made, or conclusion drawn, by a witness from facts known to him. 3) Judgment. A collection of reasons delivered by a judge for giving the judgment he is about to pronounce the judgment itself is sometimes called an opinion.
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