A just and true valuation of property. A valuation set upon property under judicial or legislative authority. Cocheco Mfg. Co. v. Strafford, 51 N. H. 4S2.
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APPRAISER
A person appointed by competent authority to make an appraisement , to ascertain and state the true value of goods or real estate .
APPRECIATED ASSET
An asset with a value that is higher than book value. The selling of it leads to profit.
APPRECIATION
When an asset’s value increases due to improvements or additions.
APPRECIATION IN VALUE
the increase in value of property and does not usually include the increased value from renovations or improvements .
APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY
When the best in an organization or employee is sought out.
APPREHEND
To take hold of, whether with the mind, and so to conceive, believe, fear, dread, (Trogdon v. State, 133 Ind. I, 32 N. E. 725;) or actually and bodily, and […]
APPREHENSIO
Lat. In the civil and old English law. A taking hold of a person or thing; apprehension ; the seizure or capture of a person. Calvin. One of the varieties […]
APPREHENSION
In practice . The seizure, taking, or arrest of a person on a criminal charge . The term ” apprehension ” is applied exclusively to criminal cases, and “arrest” to […]
APPRENDRE
A fee or profit taken or received. Cowell.
APPRENTICE
A person, usually a minor, bound in due form of law to a master. to learn from him his art, trade, or business, and to serve him during the time […]
APPRENTICE EN LA LEY
An ancient name for students at law, and afterwards applied to counsellors, apprentici ad barrast, from which conies the more modern word “barrister.”
APPRENTICESHIP
A contract by which one person, usually a minor, called the “apprentice,” is bound to another person, called the “master,” to serve him during a prescribed term of years in […]
APPRENTICIUS AD LEGEM
An apprentice to the law; a law student; a counsellor below the degree of serjeant; a barrister. See ArrRENTiCE EN LA LET.
APPRIZING
In Scotch law. A form of process by which a creditor formerly took possession of the estates of the debtor in payment of the debt due. It is now superseded […]
APPROACH
In international law . The right of a ship of war, upon the high sea, to visit another vessel for the purpose of ascertaining the nationality of the latter. 1 […]
APPROBATE AND REPROBATE
In Scotch law. To approve and reject; to take advantage of one part, and reject the rest Bell. Equity suffers no person to approbate and reprobate the same deed. 1 […]
APPROPRIABILITY
When an item or skill can be learned or copied and can be reused elsewhere.
APPROPRIATE
1. To make a thing one’s own; to make a thing the subject of property; to exercise dominion over an object to the extent, and for the purpose, of making […]
APPROPRIATE PROCESS
an order from the Internal revenue Service asking you to produce books and records and to testify.
APPROPRIATED EXPENDITURE
A department’s funds to do the work they are asked. The funds given are the appropriated expenditures.
APPROPRIATENESS
Acting appropriately or fitting the requirements that are asked of a party.
APPROPRIATION
The act of appropriating or setting apart; prescribing the destination of a thing; designating the use or application of a fund. In public law. The act by which tne legislative […]
APPROPRIATION ACCOUNT
1. part of income that is how profits are used to pay debt or increase profit. It states the profit amount not how it got there. 2. an account held […]
APPROPRIATION BILL
a law proposed that will authorise the spending of money and details the amount and the purpose for the expenditure .