rule of construction

  • 1construction — con·struc·tion /kən strək shən/ n: the act or result of construing, interpreting, or explaining meaning or effect (as of a statute or contract) the construction placed upon an agreement J. D. Calamari and J. M. Perillo Merriam Webster’s… …

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  • 2rule in Wild's Case — n. A property law rule of construction that considers a property granted to A and As children as a fee tail if A has no children as of the effective date of the grant, but as a joint tenancy if A does have children at that time. Webster s New… …

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  • 3construction — Interpretation of statute, regulation, court decision or other legal authority. The process, or the art, of determining the sense, real meaning, or proper explanation of obscure, complex or ambiguous terms or provisions in a statute, written… …

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  • 4construction — Interpretation of statute, regulation, court decision or other legal authority. The process, or the art, of determining the sense, real meaning, or proper explanation of obscure, complex or ambiguous terms or provisions in a statute, written… …

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  • 5Rule in Shelley's Case — The Rule in Shelley s Case is a rule of law that may apply to certain future interests in real property and trusts created in common law jurisdictions. [Moynihan, Cornelius, Introduction to the Law of Real Property , 3d Edition, West Group (St.… …

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  • 6Rule in Wild's Case — The Rule in Wild s Case is a common law rule of construction dating back to 1599 concerning a particular type of ambiguity in devises (such as grants or bequests) of real property: If a grantor (O) grants, by deed or will, property to another… …

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  • 7rule — 1 n 1 a: a prescribed guide for conduct or action b: a regulating principle or precept 2 a: an order or directive issued by a court in a particular proceeding esp. upon petition of a party to the proceeding that commands an officer or party to… …

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  • 8Rule 110 — The Rule 110 cellular automaton (often simply Rule 110) is a one dimensional two state cellular automaton with the following rule table:Interesting propertiesAround 2000, Matthew Cook verified a 1985 conjecture by Stephen Wolfram by proving that… …

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  • 9Construction loan — In the broadest sense of the term, a Construction Loan is any loan where the proceeds are used to finance construction of some kind. In the United States Financial Services industry however, the term is used to describe a genre of loans designed… …

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  • 10Construction of splitting fields — In mathematics, a splitting field of a polynomial with coefficients in a field is an extension of that field over which the polynomial factors into linear factors. The purpose of this article is to describe an iterative process for constructing… …

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