finder’s fee contract
finder’s-fee contract. An agreement between a finder and one of the parties to a business opportunity.
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consummate
consummate (k[schwa]n-s[schwa]m-it orkahn-s[schwa]-mit), adj. Completed; fully accomplished. • Consummate was often used at common law to describe the status of a contract or an estate, such as the trans-formation of a husband’s interest in his wife’s inheritance from that of a tenant by the curtesy initiate to a tenant by curtesy consummate upon the wife’s
creativity
Copyright. The degree to which a work displays imaginativeness beyond what a person of very ordi-nary talents might create. • Labor and expense are not elements of creativity; for that reason, they are not protected by copyright. Feist Pubs., Inc. v. Rural Tel. Serv. Co., 499 U.S. 340, 111 S.Ct. 1282 (1991). Cf. ORIGINALITY; SWEAT-OF-THE-BROW
apprentice
apprentice. 1. Hist. A person bound by an indenture to work for an employer for a specified period to learn a craft, trade, or profession. “Apprentices, in the strict legal sense, are servants, usually but not necessarily infants, who agree to serve their masters with a view to learning some trade or business, and whose
comparative negligence doctrine
comparative-negligence doctrine. Torts. The principle that reduces a plaintiff’s recovery proportionally to the plaintiff’s degree of fault in causing the damage, rather than barring recovery completely. • Most states have statutorily adopted the comparative-negligence doctrine. See NEGLIGENCE. Cf. CONTRIBUTO-RY-NEGLIGENCE DOCTRINE. [Cases: Negligence 549. C.J.S. Negligence §§ 262–264.]
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reaffirmation
reaffirmation, n. 1. Approval of something previously decided or agreed to; renewal (the Supreme Court’s reaffirmation of this principle is long overdue). 2. Bankruptcy. An agreement between the debtor and a creditor by which the debtor promises to repay a prepetition debt that would otherwise be discharged at the conclusion of the bankruptcy (the debtor
casual condition
Civil law. A condition that depends on chance; one that is not within the power of either party to an agreement.
successor trustee
A trustee who succeeds an earlier trustee, usu. as provided in the trust agreement. [Cases: Trusts 169, 243. C.J.S. Trover and Conversion §§ 288–294, 298–299, 341.]
support
support, n. 1. Sustenance or maintenance; esp., articles such as food and clothing that allow one to live in the degree of comfort to which one is accustomed. See MAINTENANCE; NECESSARIES. “Generally speaking, the words ‘support’ and ‘maintenance’ are used synonymously to refer to food, clothing and other conveniences, and shelter, including, in some cases,
seasonable
seasonable, adj. Within the time agreed on; within a reasonable time ( seasonable performance of the contract).