Read e-book online Black's Law Dictionary (Concise 8th Edition) PDF

By Bryan A. Garner

ISBN-10: 0314151990

ISBN-13: 9780314151995

Construction at the energy of earlier variants, this version comprises an intensive appendix on felony abbreviations plus 17000 new definitions, rationalization of greater than one thousand law-related abbreviations and acronyms, and is more advantageous with West Key Numbers for examine reference.

Concise searchable model of eighth variation, doesn't contain extra entrance subject and appendices present in the complete general edition.

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ABUSE(1). 31 A Black's Law Dictionary (8th ed. 1. 2. (Of a person) habitually cruel, malicious, or violent . — abusively,adv. ABUSUS abusus (<>-byoo-s<>s), n. Civil law. The right to dispose of one's property. ABUT abut (<>-b<>t), vb. To join at a border or boundary; to share a common boundary with . — abutment (<>-b<>t-m<>nt), n. ABUTTALS abuttals (<>-b<>t-<>lz).

Cases: Negligence 1205(8). S. See ACCEPTANCE(4). The doctrine that a party may not appeal a judgment after having voluntarily and intentionally received all or some part of the relief provided by it. [Cases: Appeal and Error 160. S. The practice of examining only a few items from a shipment to determine the acceptability of the whole shipment. See acceptance for honor under ACCEPTANCE(4). Intellectual property. Formal experiments conducted by or on behalf of the customer to determine whether computer software or hardware or a commercial website satisfies the customer's acceptance criteria.

2004) , Page 50 accouchement (<>-koosh-m<>nt or ak-oosh-mawn). [French] Childbirth. ACCOUNTING(3) . — Also spelled (archaically) accompt. “The action of account lies where one has received goods or money for another in a fiduciary capacity, to ascertain and recover the balance due. ” Benjamin J. , 3d ed. 1923). 3. 4. A detailed statement of the debits and credits between parties to a contract or to a fiduciary rela-tionship; a reckoning of monetary dealings < the trustee balanced the account at the end of each month>.

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