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conclude

conclude, vb. 1. To ratify or formalize (a treaty, convention, or contract) (it can be difficult to amend a contract that the parties have already concluded). 2. To bind; estop (the admissions concluded the party as a matter of law). 3. Scots law. To sign (a contract, letter, etc.) for the sale of real property.

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agency by estoppel

An agency created by operation of law and established by a principal’s actions that would reasonably lead a third person to conclude that an agency exists. — Also termed apparent agency; ostensible agency; agency by operation of law. [Cases: Principal and Agent 25(3), 137. C.J.S. Agency §§ 61, 157, 211.]

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sequester

sequester (si-kwes-t[schwa]r), n. 1. An across-the-board cut in government spending. [Cases: States 121. C.J.S. States §§ 203, 223.] 2. A person with whom litigants deposit property being contested until the case has concluded; a sequestrator. sequester, vb. 1. To seize (property) by a writ of sequestration. [Cases: Sequestration 15. C.J.S. Sequestration §§ 15–30.] 2. To

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