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Spendthrift
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SpendthriftSpendthrift is defined to be a person who by excessive drinking) gaming, idleness or debauchery of any kind, shall so spend, waste, or lessen his estate as to expose himself or his family to want or suffering, or expose the town to charge or expense, for support of himself or family.
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Spendthrift
Spendthrift is defined to be a person who by excessive drinking) gaming, idleness or debauchery of any kind, shall so spend, waste, or lessen his estate as to expose himself or his family to want or suffering, or expose the town to charge or expense, for support of himself or family.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Gaming
A contract between two or more persons by which they agree to play by certain rules at cards, dice, or other contrivance, and that one shall be the loser, and the other the winner. When considered in itself, and without regard to the end proposed by the player's, there is nothing in it contrary to natural equity, and the contract will be considered as a reciprocal gift, which the parties make of the thing played for, under certain. conditions.
Idleness
The refusal or neglect to engage in any lawful employment, in order to gain a livelihood.
Waste
The abuse, destruction or permanent change to property by one who is merely in possesion of it as in the case of a tenant or a life tenant.
Estate
A right or interest in property or the property of a deceased person.
Expose
A French word, sometimes applied to a written document, containing the reasons or motives for doing a thing. The word occurs in diplomacy.
Family
Domestic relations. In a limited sense it signifies the father, mother, and children. In a more extensive sense it comprehends all the individuals who live under the authority of another, and includes the servants of the family. It is also employed to signify all the relations who descend from a common ancestor, or who spring from a common root.
Town
This word is used differently in different parts of the United States. In Pennsylvania and some other of the middle states, it signifies a village or a city. In some of the northeastern states it denotes a subdivision of a county, called in other places a township.
Charge
1) Wills, devises. An obligation which a testator imposes on his devisee. 2) Contracts. An obligation entered into by the owner of an estate which makes the estate responsible for its performance. 3) Practice. The opinion expressed by the court to the jury, on the law arising out of a case before them.
Support
The right of support is an easement which one man, either by contract or prescription, enjoys, to rest the joists or timbers of his house upon the wall of an adjoining building, owned by another person.
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Spendthrift trust
A trust set up for the benefit of someone who the grantor believes would be incapable of managing his or her own financial affairs.
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Specification
1) Civil law. A term used in the civil law, by which is meant a person's making a new species or subject from materials belonging to another. 2) Practice, contracts. A particular and detailed account of a thing: example, in order to obtain a patent for an invention, it is necessary to file a specification or an instrument of writing, which must lay open and disclose to the public every part of the process by which the invention can be made useful if the specification does not contain the whole truth relative to the discovery, or contains more than is requisite to produce the desired effect, and the concealment or addition was made for the purpose of deception, the patent would be void; for if the specification were insufficient on account of its want of clearness, exactitude or good faith, it would be a fraud on society that the patentee should obtain a monopoly without giving up his invention.
Specimen
A sample; a part of something by which the other may be known.
Speculation
Contracts. The hope or desire of making a profit by the purchase and resale of a thing. The profit so made; as, be made a good speculation.
Speech
A formal discourse in public.
Spelling
The art of putting the proper letters in words.
Spendthrift
Spendthrift trust
A trust set up for the benefit of someone who the grantor believes would be incapable of managing his or her own financial affairs.
Sperate
That of which there is hope.
Spes recuperandi
The hope of recovery. This term is applied to cases of capture of an enemy's property as a booty or prize. As between the belligerent parties, the title to the property taken as a prize passes the moment there is no longer any hope of recovery.
Spinster
An addition given, in legal writings, to a woman who never was married.
Split custody
A form of custody in which the actual time of physical custody is split between both parents, which gives both parents the right to make decisions.
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Spendthrift
Spendthrift is defined to be a person who by excessive drinking) gaming, idleness or debauchery of any kind, shall so spend, waste, or lessen his estate as to expose himself or his family to want or suffering, or expose the town to charge or expense, for support of himself or family.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Gaming
A contract between two or more persons by which they agree to play by certain rules at cards, dice, or other contrivance, and that one shall be the loser, and the other the winner. When considered in itself, and without regard to the end proposed by the player's, there is nothing in it contrary to natural equity, and the contract will be considered as a reciprocal gift, which the parties make of the thing played for, under certain. conditions.
Idleness
The refusal or neglect to engage in any lawful employment, in order to gain a livelihood.
Waste
The abuse, destruction or permanent change to property by one who is merely in possesion of it as in the case of a tenant or a life tenant.
Estate
A right or interest in property or the property of a deceased person.
Expose
A French word, sometimes applied to a written document, containing the reasons or motives for doing a thing. The word occurs in diplomacy.
Family
Domestic relations. In a limited sense it signifies the father, mother, and children. In a more extensive sense it comprehends all the individuals who live under the authority of another, and includes the servants of the family. It is also employed to signify all the relations who descend from a common ancestor, or who spring from a common root.
Town
This word is used differently in different parts of the United States. In Pennsylvania and some other of the middle states, it signifies a village or a city. In some of the northeastern states it denotes a subdivision of a county, called in other places a township.
Charge
1) Wills, devises. An obligation which a testator imposes on his devisee. 2) Contracts. An obligation entered into by the owner of an estate which makes the estate responsible for its performance. 3) Practice. The opinion expressed by the court to the jury, on the law arising out of a case before them.
Support
The right of support is an easement which one man, either by contract or prescription, enjoys, to rest the joists or timbers of his house upon the wall of an adjoining building, owned by another person.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Spendthrift trust
A trust set up for the benefit of someone who the grantor believes would be incapable of managing his or her own financial affairs.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Specification
1) Civil law. A term used in the civil law, by which is meant a person's making a new species or subject from materials belonging to another. 2) Practice, contracts. A particular and detailed account of a thing: example, in order to obtain a patent for an invention, it is necessary to file a specification or an instrument of writing, which must lay open and disclose to the public every part of the process by which the invention can be made useful if the specification does not contain the whole truth relative to the discovery, or contains more than is requisite to produce the desired effect, and the concealment or addition was made for the purpose of deception, the patent would be void; for if the specification were insufficient on account of its want of clearness, exactitude or good faith, it would be a fraud on society that the patentee should obtain a monopoly without giving up his invention.
Specimen
A sample; a part of something by which the other may be known.
Speculation
Contracts. The hope or desire of making a profit by the purchase and resale of a thing. The profit so made; as, be made a good speculation.
Speech
A formal discourse in public.
Spelling
The art of putting the proper letters in words.
Spendthrift
Spendthrift trust
A trust set up for the benefit of someone who the grantor believes would be incapable of managing his or her own financial affairs.
Sperate
That of which there is hope.
Spes recuperandi
The hope of recovery. This term is applied to cases of capture of an enemy's property as a booty or prize. As between the belligerent parties, the title to the property taken as a prize passes the moment there is no longer any hope of recovery.
Spinster
An addition given, in legal writings, to a woman who never was married.
Split custody
A form of custody in which the actual time of physical custody is split between both parents, which gives both parents the right to make decisions.
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