A will executed by two or more people — to dispose of property they own separately, in common, or jointly — requiring the surviving testator to dispose of the property in accordance with the terms of the will, and showing that the devises are made in consideration of one another. • The word “joint” indicates […]
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D’Oench Duhme doctrine (dench doom). The rule that estops a borrower from asserting a claim or defense against a federal successor to a failed financial institution — if the claim or defense is based on a side or secret agreement or representation — unless the agreements or representations have been (1) put into writing, (2)
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An electronic symbol, sound, or process that is either attached to or logically associated with a document (such as a contract or other record) and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the document. • Types of electronic signatures include a typed name at the end of an e-mail, a digital
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scintilla juris (sin-til-[schwa] joor-is). [Law Latin “a spark of right”] Hist. A fragment of law or right. • This refers to a figurative expression in the law of uses providing a trace of seisin rights to remain in the feoffees sufficient to allow contingent uses to be executed under the Statute of Uses. It was
lex Pompeia de parricidiis (leks pom-pee-[schwa] dee par-[schwa]-sI-dee-is). [Latin] Roman law. A law of 70 or 55 B.C. defining what murders amounted to parricide and establishing a special expiatory punishment, in which the offender was executed by being sewn up in a sack with a dog, a rooster, a viper, and a monkey, and thrown
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concord (kon-kord orkong-), n. 1. An amicable arrangement between parties, esp. between peoples or nations; a compact or treaty. 2. Archaic. An agreement to compromise and settle an action in trespass. “Concord is an Agreement made between two or more, upon a Trespass committed; and is divided into Concord executory, and Concord executed… ; one
Hist. A writ issued in a county having venue of an action in order to allow a writ of capias ad satisfaciendum or of fieri facias to be executed in a county where the defendant or the defendant’s property was found. • These two writs could not be executed in a county other than the
A plea in abatement that objects to the writ (summons) and applies (1) to the form of the writ for a matter either apparent on the writ’s face or outside the writ, or (2) to the way in which the writ was executed or acted on.
execute, vb. 1. To perform or complete (a contract or duty) (once the contract was fully executed, the parties owed no further contractual duties to each other). [Cases: Contracts 6. C.J.S. Contracts § 8.] 2. To change (as a legal interest) from one form to another (the shifting use was executed into a valid legal
An order that must be executed as soon as it reaches the trading floor. • If the order is not filled immediately, it is canceled.
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