USA Law

Category: Civil law

  • Commercial Lease

    Commercial Lease in United States Practical Information Note: Some of this information was last updated in 1982A binding contract (in U.S. law), for the possession of lands and improvements to be used in the conduct of business (such as retail stores, office buildings, theaters, shopping […]

  • Commercial Lease

    Commercial Lease in United States Practical Information Note: Some of this information was last updated in 1982A binding contract (in U.S. law), for the possession of lands and improvements to be used in the conduct of business (such as retail stores, office buildings, theaters, shopping […]

  • Eviction

    Eviction in United States Eviction Definition Depriving a person of the possession of his lands or tenements. Technically, the dispossession must be by judgment of law; if otherwise, it is an ouster (32 Iowa, 71), but in modern usage it is commonly applied to dispossession in any manner (44 […]

  • Accord and Satisfaction

    Accord and Satisfaction in United States Practical Information Note: Some of this information was last updated in 1982Payment of money, or other consideration, usually less than the amount owed, to discharge an obligation or debt. The parties must have actually or impliedly agreed that the […]

  • Common Law

    Common Law in the United States Common Law Definition That system of law or form of the science of jurisprudence which has prevailed in England and in the United States of America, in contradistinction to other great systems, such as the Roman or civil law. As distinguished from statute […]

  • Common Law

    Common Law in the United States Common Law Definition That system of law or form of the science of jurisprudence which has prevailed in England and in the United States of America, in contradistinction to other great systems, such as the Roman or civil law. As distinguished from statute […]

  • Intestate Succession

    Intestate Succession in United States Intestate Succession Definition The succession or devolution of interest of the property of one dying intestate. In Louisiana, the term succession is applied to the estate as a whole. Intestate Succession in Foreign Legal Encyclopedias LinkDescription […]

  • Emancipation

    Emancipation in United States Emancipation Definition An act by which a person who was once in the power of another is rendered free. This is of importance mainly in relation to the emancipation of minors from the parental control. See 3 Term R. 355; 6 Term R. 247; 8 Term R. 479; 3 East, 276;…

  • Emancipation

    Emancipation in United States Emancipation Definition An act by which a person who was once in the power of another is rendered free. This is of importance mainly in relation to the emancipation of minors from the parental control. See 3 Term R. 355; 6 Term R. 247; 8 Term R. 479; 3 East, 276;…

  • Closing

    Closing in United States Practical Information Note: Some of this information was last updated in 1982See closing title (in U.S. law).(Revised by Ann De Vries) What is Closing? For a meaning of it, read Closing in the Legal Dictionary here. Browse and search more U.S. and international free […]

  • Adverse Possession

    Adverse Possession in United States Adverse Possession Definition The enjoyment of land, or such estate as lies in grant, under such circumstances as indicate that such enjoyment has been commenced and continued under an assertion or color of right on the part of the possessor. 3 East, 394; 1 […]

  • Adverse Possession

    Adverse Possession in United States Adverse Possession Definition The enjoyment of land, or such estate as lies in grant, under such circumstances as indicate that such enjoyment has been commenced and continued under an assertion or color of right on the part of the possessor. 3 East, 394; 1 […]

  • Invitee

    Invitee in United States Practical Information Note: Some of this information was last updated in 1982A person on the premises for a purpose of mutual benefit concerning the business of the owner, for example a shopper in a store. A social visitor is not an invitee. The owner of the premises […]

  • Invitee

    Invitee in United States Practical Information Note: Some of this information was last updated in 1982A person on the premises for a purpose of mutual benefit concerning the business of the owner, for example a shopper in a store. A social visitor is not an invitee. The owner of the premises […]

  • Ademption

    Ademption in United States Ademption Definition The extinction of a specific legacy by the testator’s parting with the subject thereof during his life. Also applied to the payment of the testator during his life of a general legacy; but this is more properly known as satisfaction. 9 Barb. (N. […]