X. 1. A mark serving as the signature of a person who is physically handicapped or illiterate. • The signer’s name usu. appears near the mark, and if the mark is to be notarized as a signature, two signing witnesses are ordinarily required in addition to the notary public. [Cases: Signatures 5. C.J.S. Signatures §§ […]
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Airman’s Information Manual. A publication of the Federal Aviation Administration, providing the funda-mental requirements of any pilot who flies in national airspace.
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A preferential vote on which all the ranked candidates have already been elected or eliminated. — Also termed exhausted ballot.
corody (kor- orkahr-[schwa]-dee). Hist. An allowance of money, accommodation, food, or clothing given by a religious house to any person who signed over personal or real property or both in exchange or to a royal servant at the Crown’s request. • The amount of property required from a person who purchased a corody depended on
planned-unit development. A land area zoned for a single-community subdivision with flexible restrictions on residential, commercial, and public uses. — Abbr. PUD. Cf. RESIDENTIAL CLUSTER. [Cases: Zoning and Planning 245. C.J.S. Zoning and Land Planning § 101.] “A PUD is primarily an alternative to traditional zoning since it provides a mixing of uses. The location
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A contract requiring or authorizing the delivery of goods in separate lots, or payments in separate increments, to be separately accepted. • Under the UCC, this type of agreement will be considered one contract even if it has a clause stating that each delivery is a separate contract. UCC § 2-612. [Cases: Sales 163, 192.
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An otherwise legal vote cast in a form from which the tellers cannot ascertain the voter’s intent. • On a secret ballot, no voter may properly claim an unintelligible vote for the purpose of explaining it since the vote may have been cast by another voter who cannot contradict the claimant without sacrificing his or
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half-timer. Hist. In England, a child excused from full-time attendance at school under the Factory and Workshop Act of 1908 so that the child could work part-time in a factory or workshop. • The Factory and Workshop Acts from 1901 to 1911 were repealed by the Factory and Workshop (Cotton Cloth Factories) Act of 1929
plat map. A document that gives the legal descriptions of pieces of real property by lot, street, and block number. • A plat map is usu. drawn after the property has been described by some other means, such as a government survey. Once a plat map is prepared, property descriptions are defined by referring to