a term that is applied when a plaintiff or a defendant is changed during a law suit with the permission of the court when a pleading process has been amended.

Where a will contains a gift of prop- erty to a class of persons, with a clause providing that on the death of a member of the class before the […]

In French law . The fraudulent appropriation of any property, but particularly of the goods of a decedent’s estate.

The underlying or primary material on what other materials are applied or made from.

The basic foundation or framework supporting a superstructure and it is supported by infrastructure.

Added surety with less liability than the surety that is the principal that is contingent with the non-performance of the principal or earlier one.

The arrangement where two or more parties are acting as a security for each other.

Rights of the landowner to water and substances below the surface of their land. See air rights, surface rights , mineral rights .

A group of inter-connected and interactive components that perform important tasks as part of a larger system.

An under-tenant ; one who leases all or a part of the rented premises from the original lessee for a term less than that held by the latter. Forrest v. […]

The offense of withholding or withdrawing from another man what by law he is entitled to. There are various descriptions of this offense, of which the principal are as follows: […]

term that describes the situation of a husband and wife living apart without having a legal cause .

Colors used in the four color printing process, C, cyan, M, magenta, Y, yellow and black that overlap to produce other colors.

Area located at the edge of the urban development of a city.

Lat. In old English law . Husbandmen.

are assessed to satisfy a bare legal right . Wharton.

n old Scotch law. Base holders; inferior holders; they who held their lands of knights. Skene. 6UCCESSI0

Amount of revenue that a not foot profit organization needs to keep to pay operating expenses .

an attempt to overthrow or destroy a government that has been legally established.

1. The achievement of an action in a set period of time or within a set of parameters. Reaching a goal or project completion. 2. The term, colloquially used that […]

A former excise tax of 15% needed by distributions from retirement accounts more than a set amount. Repealed in 1997.

Term from system dynamics for the situation of a successful competitor will be rewarded by an economic system with more resources that come at the expense of competitors less successful.

Lat. In the civil law . A coming in place of another, on his decease; a coming into the estate which a deceased person had at the time of his […]

In the civil law and in Louisiana. I. The fact of the transmission of the rights, estate, obligations, and charges of a deceased person to his heir or heirs. 2. […]

Development and identification of successors for an organizations key positions by systematic process of evaluation and training.