contract a debt

  • 81revival — re·vi·val /ri vī vəl/ n: an act or instance of reviving Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. revival I …

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  • 82cause of action — 1: the grounds (as violation of a right) that entitle a plaintiff to bring a suit an amended pleading reiterating a cause of action for lost profits J. H. Friedenthal et al.; also: the part of a suit brought on those grounds removed the cause of… …

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  • 83ASSAULT — ASSAULT, the infliction of any degree of violence on the body of another person, whether injury results or not. The biblical injunction, he may be given up to 40 lashes but not more (Deut. 25:3), which applies to flogging by way of punishment,… …

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  • 84contingent — con·tin·gent /kən tin jənt/ adj 1: likely but not certain to happen compare executory 2: intended for use in circumstances not completely foreseen a contingent fund 3: dependent on or conditioned by something else …

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  • 85cancel — verb Cancel is used with these nouns as the object: ↑appearance, ↑appointment, ↑booking, ↑card, ↑cheque, ↑concert, ↑contract, ↑date, ↑debt, ↑election, ↑engagement, ↑ …

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  • 86short-term — adj. Short term is used with these nouns: ↑aim, ↑benefit, ↑care, ↑change, ↑confinement, ↑consequence, ↑contract, ↑credit, ↑debt, ↑effect, ↑employment, ↑ …

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  • 87obligation — [n] responsibility accountability, accountableness, agreement, bond, burden, business, call, cause, charge, chit*, commitment, committal, compulsion, conscience, constraint, contract, debit, debt, devoir, due bill, dues, duty, engagement, IOU*,… …

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  • 88mancomunal — /mankomuwnal/ In Spanish law, an obligation is said to be mancomunal when one person assumes the contract or debt of another, and makes himself liable to pay or fulfill it …

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  • 89mancomunal — /mankomuwnal/ In Spanish law, an obligation is said to be mancomunal when one person assumes the contract or debt of another, and makes himself liable to pay or fulfill it …

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  • 90obligation — In an early and narrow sense, a bond or deed under seal wherein a person binds himself under penalty to do a thing. In the modern and popular sense, that which binds, as an oath, vow, promise, contract, or debt. Hargroves v Cooke, 15 Ga 321, 330 …

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