A trust that places exceptionally heavy and time-consuming duties of responsibility and care on the trustee, often without providing for compensation. • Because of the burden and inequity of requiring the trust to be administered voluntarily, courts often grant a trustee a reasonable sum for the tasks performed.
motion to dismiss. A request that the court dismiss the case because of settlement, voluntary withdrawal, or a procedural defect. • Under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, a plaintiff may voluntarily dismiss the case (under Rule 41(a)) or the defendant may ask the court to dismiss the case, usu. based on one of the
give, vb. 1. To voluntarily transfer (property) to another without compensation (Jack gave his daughter a car on her birthday). 2. To confer by a formal act (the First Amendment gives all citizens the right to free speech). 3. To present for another to consider (the witness gave compelling testimony before the jury). 4. (Of
quondam (kwon-d[schwa]m), adj. Having been formerly; former (the quondam ruler). quondam, n. Archaic. A person who once held an office or a position, esp. one who was involuntarily removed or deposed.
get, n. 1. A rabbinical divorce; a Jewish divorce. 2. Under Jewish law, a document signed by a rabbi to grant a divorce. • Under Jewish law, a Jewish divorce can be obtained only after the husband has given the get to the wife, who must voluntarily accept it. — Also spelled gett. Pl. gittin.
A discretionary trust in which the settlor authorizes the trustee to pay to the beneficiary as much income or principal as the trustee believes is needed for support, esp. for “comfortable support” or “support in accordance with the beneficiary’s standard of living.” • The beneficiary’s interest cannot be voluntarily transferred, but creditors who provide necessaries
A statute that exempts from liability a person (such as an off-duty physician) who voluntarily renders aid to another in imminent danger but negligently causes injury while rendering the aid. • Some form of good-samaritan legislation has been enacted in all 50 states and in the District of Columbia. — Also written Good Samaritan law.
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fledwite (fled-wIt). Hist. 1. A discharge from an amercement (a fine) for a fugitive who voluntarily surrenders to the monarch. 2. The fine set on a fugitive as the price for obtaining freedom. 3. The right to hold court and take an amercement for the offenses of beating and striking. — Also spelled fleduite. —
sponsor. 1. One who acts as a surety for another. 2. A legislator who proposes a bill. 3. Civil law. One who voluntarily intervenes for another without being requested to do so. 4. GODPARENT.
accounting. 1. The act or a system of establishing or settling financial accounts; esp., the process of recording transactions in the financial records of a business and periodically extracting, sorting, and summarizing the rec-orded transactions to produce a set of financial records. — Also termed financial accounting. 2. A rendition of an account, either voluntarily