Knowing a circumstance that was legally obtained by reasonable care .
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CONSTRUCTIVE MALICE
See legal malice .
CONSTRUCTIVE NOTICE
1.knowledge that can be acquired by normal means. 2. news about court actions that is sufficient for all parties involved. Refer to actual notive and implied notice.
CONSTRUCTIVE OWNERSHIP
When one stock owner shares ownership based on their relations to another party. A parent in the relationship is the owner of the child’s stock.
CONSTRUCTIVE PAYMENT
A payment that is made but not shown in account records of the payee.
CONSTRUCTIVE POSSESSION
Having control of an item but not having actual possession of it. The item may not yet be delivered or paid for.
CONSTRUCTIVE TAKING
A phrase used in the law to characterize an act not amounting to an actual appropriation of chattels, but which shows an intention to convert them to his use; as […]
CONSTRUCTIVE TOTAL LOSS
In INSURANCE, damage to property or ASSETS that is so significant that the cost of restoration is determined to be greater than the value of the restoration.
CONSTRUCTIVE TOTAL LOSS (CTL)
A situation where loss is unavoidable or partial loss happens that is beyond repair. The property may be abandoned who assumes the rights to the property.
CONSTRUCTIVE TRUST
A trust made based on the law preventing injustice. It stops one party from getting an unfair advantage by lieing.
CONSTRUCTIVE WILLFULNESS
This term applies to doing something with the complete disregard for the safety of others and a conscious decision not to safeguard people in danger.
CONSTRUCTIVISM
Teaching idea that considers learning what happens in the students brain based on their own thoughts being related to a new experience. They each make their own models of the […]
CONSTRUE
To put together; to arrange or marshal the words of an instrument . To ascertain the meaning of language by a process of arrangement and inference. See CONSTRUCTION .
CONSTUPRATE
To ravish, debauch, violate, rape. See Harper v. Delp, 3 Ind. 230; Koenig v. Nott, 2 Hilt. (N. Y.) 329
CONSUETUDINARIUS
In ecclesiastical law . A ritual or book, containing the rites and forms of divine offices, or the customs of abbeys and monasteries
CONSUETUDINARY LAW
Customary law. Law derived-by oral tradition from a remote antiquity. BeU
CONSUETUDINES
In old English law . Customs. Thus, consuetudines et assisa forestce, the customs and assise of the forest .
CONSUETUDINES FEUDORUM
(Lat. feudal customs.) A compilation of the law of feuds or fiefs in Lombardy, made A. D. 1170
CONSUETUDINIBUS ET SERVICIIS
In old English law . A writ of right close, which lay against a tenant who deforced his’ lord of the rent or service due to him. Reg. Orig. 159; […]
CONSUETUDO ANGLICANA
The custom of England; the ancient common law. as distinguished from lex, the Roman or civil law
CONSUETUDO CURIAE
The custom or practice of a court. Ilardr. 141
CONSUETUDO LAT
A custom; an established usage or practice. Co. Litt. 58. Tolls; duties; taxes. Id. 586.
CONSUETUDO MERCATOR- UIN
Lat. The custom of merchants , the same with lex meroatoria. Consuetudo contra rationem intro- ducta potius usurpatio quam consuetudo appellari debet. A custom introduced against reason ought rather to […]
CONSUETUDO TOLLIT COMMUNEM LEGEM
Co. Litt. 336. Custom takes away the common law. Consuetudo volentes ducit, lex nolen- tes trakit. Custom leads the willing, law compels [drags] the unwilling. Jenk. Cent. 274.
CONSUL
In Roman law. During the republic, the name “consul” was given to the chief executive magistrate , two of whom were chosen annually. The otlice was continued under the empire, […]