joint and several
121joint tenancy — noun : one of several forms of tenure in which two or more persons hold in concurrent ownership the same estate in realty or personalty and agree that upon the death of one joint tenant the full title to the estate remains in the surviving joint… …
122Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War (Timeline 191) — The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War appears as a United States governmental committee in Harry Turtledove s alternate history novels of the United States of America and the Confederate States of America, known popularly as the Timeline… …
123joint negligence — In case of joint negligence of several people, proximately causing accident, they act together in concert and either do something together which they should not do or fail to do something which they are together obligated to do under… …
124joint negligence — In case of joint negligence of several people, proximately causing accident, they act together in concert and either do something together which they should not do or fail to do something which they are together obligated to do under… …
125joint will — One where the same instrument is made the will of two or more persons and is jointly signed by them. Such wills are usually executed to make testamentary disposition of joint property. A joint or conjoint will is a testamentary instrument… …
126joint receptor — any of several mechanoreceptors that occur in joint capsules and respond to deep pressure and to other stimuli such as stress or change in position …
127several actions — Where a separate and distinct action is brought against each of two or more persons who are all liable to the plaintiff in respect to the same subjectmatter, the actions are said to be several. If all the persons are joined as defendants in one… …
128joint indictment — When several offenders are joined in the same indictment, as when principals in the first and second degree, and accessories before and after the fact, are all joined in the same indictment …
