USA Law

Category: Civil law

  • Fraud

    Fraud in United States Fraud Definition The unlawful obtaining of another's property by design, but without criminal intent, and with the assent of the owner obtained by artifice or misrepresentation. Any cunning deception or artifice used to circumvent, cheat, or deceive another. […]

  • Fraud

    Fraud in United States Fraud Definition The unlawful obtaining of another's property by design, but without criminal intent, and with the assent of the owner obtained by artifice or misrepresentation. Any cunning deception or artifice used to circumvent, cheat, or deceive another. […]

  • Estoppel

    Estoppel in the United States Estoppel Definition The preclusion of a person from asserting a fact by previous conduct, inconsistent therewith, on his own part, or the part of those under whom he claims, or by a solemn establishment, which he cannot be allowed to call in question. A […]

  • Breach

    Breach in United States Breach Definition In Contracts. The violation of an obligation, engagement, or duty. Breach may be either by renunciation, that is, by the declaration of the party that he does not intend to perform (32 Iowa, 409; 61 N. Y. 362; 52 Wis. 240), by such acts as will […]

  • Negotiation

    Negotiation in United States Negotiation Definition The deliberation which takes place between the parties touching a proposed agreement. That which transpires in the negotiation makes no part of the agreement, unless introduced into it. It is a general rule that no evidence can be […]

  • Censorship

    Censorship in the United States Censorship in the United States When the American colonists drafted laws before 1776, they borrowed from English precedents regarding personal rights and liberties but went far beyond Great Britain in the fields of freedom of religion, speech, press, and […]

  • Indemnity

    Indemnity in United States Indemnity Definition That which is given to a person to prevent his suffering damage. 2 McCord (S. C.) 279. Security to save harmless. A contract whereby one party agrees to secure another against an anticipated loss or damage, and the liability under which […]

  • Adoption

    Adoption in United States Adoption Definition The act by which a person takes the child of another into his family, and treats him as his own. A juridical act creating between two persons certain relations, purely civil, or paternity and filiation. 6 Demolombe Code Nap. § 1. As […]

  • Agreement

    Agreement in the United States Agreement Definition (from Lat. aggregatio mentium). A coming together of parties in opinion or determination; the union of two or more minds in a thing done or to be done; a mutual assent to do a thing. … The consent of two or more persons concurring, the one […]

  • Marketable Title

    Marketable Title in United States Marketable Title Definition A title not subject to such reasonable doubt as would create a just apprehension of invalidity in the mind of a reasonable, prudent and intelligent person; one that a person of reasonable prudence and intelligence, guided by […]

  • Marketable Title

    Marketable Title in United States Marketable Title Definition A title not subject to such reasonable doubt as would create a just apprehension of invalidity in the mind of a reasonable, prudent and intelligent person; one that a person of reasonable prudence and intelligence, guided by […]

  • Mortgage

    Mortgage in the United States Mortgage Definition The conveyance of an estate or property by way of pledge for the security of debt, and to become void on payment of it. 4 Kent, Comm. 136. An estate created by a conveyance absolute in its form, but intended to secure the performance of some […]

  • Mortgage

    Mortgage in the United States Mortgage Definition The conveyance of an estate or property by way of pledge for the security of debt, and to become void on payment of it. 4 Kent, Comm. 136. An estate created by a conveyance absolute in its form, but intended to secure the performance of some […]

  • Acceptance

    Acceptance in United States Acceptance Definition (Lat. acdpere). Of Property. The receipt of a thing offered by another with an intention to retain it, indicated by some act sufficient for the purpose. 2 Pars. Cont. 221. , Tile element of receipt must enter into every acceptance, […]

  • Acceptance

    Acceptance in United States Acceptance Definition (Lat. acdpere). Of Property. The receipt of a thing offered by another with an intention to retain it, indicated by some act sufficient for the purpose. 2 Pars. Cont. 221. , Tile element of receipt must enter into every acceptance, […]