Property. The common-law doctrine requiring a future interest to vest by the time it is to become possessory or else suffer total destruction (the interest then reverting to the grantor). The doctrine could be avoided by the use of trustees to preserve contingent remainders. • This doctrine has been abolished in all but a few […]
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liquidated, adj. 1. (Of an amount or debt) settled or determined, esp. by agreement. 2. (Of an asset or assets) converted into cash.
雇佣合同 英语：employment contract 法语：contrat de travail 德语：Arbeitsvertrag, Anstellungsvertrag 意大利语：contratto di lavoro subordinato 西班牙语：contrato de trabajo
A point supported by one party’s evidence and controverted by another’s. — Also termed fact issue.
The constitutionally impermissible error of resting a death sentence on a determination made by a sentencer who has been led to believe that the responsibility for determining the appropriateness of the defendant’s death sentence lies elsewhere. Caldwell v. Mississippi, 472 U.S. 320, 105 S.Ct. 2633 (1985). • The error most often occurs when the prosecutor
confusion. 1. CONFUSION OF GOODS. 2. MERGER(9). “Confusion is the intermingling of two or more pieces of personal property so that the property rights in each can no longer be distinguished. Thereafter, no specific identification or separation of the formerly separate chattel is possible. Such an intermingling occurs most often with fungible goods like gas,
two-witness rule. 1. The rule that, to support a perjury conviction, two independent witnesses (or one witness along with corroborating evidence) must establish that the alleged perjurer gave false testimony. [Cases: Perjury 34. C.J.S. Perjury § 43.] 2. The rule, as stated in the U.S. Constitution, that no person may be convicted of treason without
An irrevocable trust, set up for at least ten years and a day, whereby income from the trust property is paid to the beneficiary but the property itself reverts back to the settlor when the trust expires. • These trusts were often used by parents — with their children as beneficiaries — to shelter investment
A security representing an ownership interest in a corporation, such as a share of stock, rather than a debt interest, such as a bond; any stock or similar security, or any security that is convertible into stock or similar security or carrying a warrant or right to subscribe to or purchase stock or a similar
deceptive act 〈美〉(商业)欺诈行为 指可能欺骗消费者，从而使之在同等情形下本可合理行事却未能合理行事的行为。联邦贸易委员会和大多数州的立法都把商业欺诈视为非法。 (→consumer protection law; deceptive advertising)