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  • 61council — Broadly, an assembly, the derivation being from the Latin consilium, but, in modern usage, the legislative department of a city or other municipal corporation. 37 Am J1st Mun Corp § 46 …

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  • 62deed — Broadly defined, a writing sealed and delivered by the parties; in the modern sense, an instrument conveying real property or an interest therein. 23 Am J2d Deeds § 1. See absolute deed; bargain and sale; quitclaim deed; release and quitclaim;… …

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  • 63drug — Broadly defined, any substance used as a medicine or in the composition of medicine for internal or external use, including patent and proprietary remedies that possess or are reputed to possess curative or remedial properties. Kelly v Carroll,… …

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  • 64educational purpose — Broadly, the establishment and maintenance of any kind of educational institution, but sometimes acquiring a more restricted meaning from the context in which it appears. In the ordinary and commonly accepted sense, the term does not include a… …

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  • 65employee of the United States — Broadly, any person in the employ of the government. For the purposes of the Federal Tort Claims Act, one acting under the control of the government, unaffected from the standpoint of control by any intervening sovereignty, independent agency, or …

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  • 66equitable plaintiff — Broadly, the plaintiff in an action or suit in equity. Precisely, the holder of the beneficial interest where a suit has been instituted by or in the name of the holder of the legal title as nominal plaintiff for the benefit of the owner of the… …

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  • 67estate of deceased person — Broadly speaking, such an estate may be deemed to exist only from the death of the decedent until it is finally wound up by an order of the court having jurisdiction of it. After the property of the decedent s estate has been paid out or… …

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  • 68executed will — Broadly, a will which has been signed by the testator and attested in accord with statutory requirements. More narrowly defined in the terms of what the testator must do, that is, a will signed by the testator. Re Johnson (ND) 75 NW2d 313, 55… …

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  • 69half blood — Broadly defined, relatives by blood but having only one common ancestor. The relationship between children who have but one of their parents in common. Butler v King, 10 Tenn (2 Yerg) 115, 118. In a number of cases wherein the language of the… …

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  • 70heir — Broadly, one who succeeds to either real or personal property of a decedent who dies intestate. Re Rawnsley s Estate, 94 Cal App 2d 384, 210 P2d 888. At common law and by modern technical usage in some jurisdictions, one who succeeds to the real… …

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