Ascertaining a widow’s right of dower by laying out or marking off one-third of her “deceased husband’s lands, and setting off the same for her use during life. Bettis v. […]

See ERROR.

the statement of mistakes that have supposedly been made during a trial in a lower court . These errors are used to take the case to a higher court.

When a life insurance policies benefits are used as collateral. If death should occur the lender is paid first than the beneficiary . Only life insurance can be used this […]

When a tenant signs their rights to another tenant of a leased property. The original tenant is responsible for the contract unless a landlord releases them.

A document that transfers obligation of a loan to another party.

When a portion of benefits is given to a third party by a beneficiary on a letter of credit . It is a deed of assignment .

Any items of collateral that are used to get a loan.

When a lender directly gets payments for a loan from the property mortgaged in the case of default.

When a beneficiary gives profits to a third party in a letter of credit . This requires no approval.

An assignment for the benefit of creditors, with directions to the assignee to prefer a specified creditor or class of creditors, by paying their claims in full before the others […]

the assignment that directs the creditors to be paid first in full before claims of other creditors are paid.

One who makes an assignment of any kind; one who assigns or transfers property.

Assignees; those to whom property shall have been transferred. Now seldom used except in the phrase, in deeds, “heirs, administrators, and assigns.” Grant v. Carpenter, 8 R. I. 36; Baily […]

1.To take in. 2. to become a part of another entity.

Buying the whole new issue by public buyers. If underwriters do this its called absorption.

When a situation or message is understood by the party that is meant to receive it.

The amount of waste a natural body of water can handle without any harm being done.

In old English and Scotch law. An assise; a kind of jury or inquest; a writ; a sitting of a court; an ordinance or statute; a fixed or specific time, […]

Assise of arms. A statute or ordinance requiring the keeping of arms for the common defense. Hale, Com. Law, c. 11.

To fail in the assise ; i. e., to be nonsuited. Cowell; 3 Bl. Comm. 402.

The assise falls (turns) into a jury; hence to submit a controversy to trial by jury .

An ancient writ addressed to the justices of assise for the continuation of a cause, when certain facts put in issue could not have been proved in time by the […]

The assise of Clarendon . A statute or ordinance passed in the tenth year of Henry II., by which those that were accused of any heinous crime, and not able […]

Assise of the forest ; a statute concerning orders to be observed in the royal forests.