Exoneration in United States
Exoneration Definition
(1) The taking off a burden or duty; the shifting of a burden from one person or one piece of property to another. Thus, it is a general rule in the distribution of an intestate’s estate that the debts which he himself contracted, and for which he mortgaged his land as security, shall be paid out of the personal estate, in exoneration of the real.
(2) The right of one secondarily liable, who has paid the debt, to recourse in equity against the principal for reimbursement. Pom. Eq. Jur. p. 467, § 1416.
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| Exoneration | Exoneration in the Asian Legal Encyclopedia. |
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Legal Issue for Attorneys
(1) The taking off a burden or duty; the shifting of a burden from one person or one piece of property to another. Thus, it is a general rule in the distribution of an intestate’s estate that the debts which he himself contracted, and for which he mortgaged his land as security, shall be paid out of the personal estate, in exoneration of the real.
(2) The right of one secondarily liable, who has paid the debt, to recourse in equity against the principal for reimbursement. Pom. Eq. Jur. p. 467, § 1416.
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