(law) the removal or termination or destruction of something that has been found to be a nuisance
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Controlling interest
ownership of more than 50% of a corporation's voting shares
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(law) compensation for losses that can readily be proven to have occurred and for which the injured party has the right to be compensa…
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law.(law) immediate and direct physical control over property
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law.(law) a name under which a corporation conducts business that is not the legal name of the corporation as shown in its articles of inc…
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law.(law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law.(law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law.(law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity; "injunctions were forme…
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law.(law) any wrongdoing for which an action for damages may be brought
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law.(law) any monopoly or contract or combination or conspiracy intended to restrain commerce (which are illegal according to antitrust la…
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law.(law) negligence allocated between the plaintiff and the defendant with a corresponding reduction in damages paid to the plaintiff
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law.(law) compensation for losses that can readily be proven to have occurred and for which the injured party has the right to be compensa…
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law.(law) negligence of two of more persons acting independently; the plaintiff may sue both together or separately
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law.(law) having the power and intention to have and control property but without direct control or actual presence upon it
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law.(law) behavior by the plaintiff that contributes to the harm resulting from the defendant's negligence; "in common law any degree of c…
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Used in the same subject area: Law, General law.(law) possession for which criminal sanctions are provided because the property may not lawfully be possessed or may not be possessed…
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law.(law) recklessly acting without reasonable caution and putting another person at risk of injury or death (or failing to do something w…
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law.(law) a name under which a corporation conducts business that is not the legal name of the corporation as shown in its articles of inc…
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a corporation gaining financial control over another corporation or financial institution through a payment in cash or an exchange of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ownership, corporation, voting, shares.The act of apportioning; a dividing into just proportions or shares; a division or shares; a division and assignment, to each propriet…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ownership, corporation, voting, shares.a legal document that creates a corporation; it is filed with a state by the founders of a corporation and is governed by the laws of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ownership, corporation, voting, shares.Yes; yea; -- a word expressing assent, or an affirmative answer to a question. It is much used in viva voce voting in legislative bodi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ownership, corporation, voting, shares.Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ownership, corporation, voting, shares.Voting by ballot.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ownership, corporation, voting, shares.A ball of black color, esp. one used as a negative in voting; -- in this sense usually two words.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ownership, corporation, voting, shares.a careful study of some social unit (as a corporation or division within a corporation) that attempts to determine what factors led to…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ownership, corporation, voting, shares.A division of the Roman people formed according to their property, for the purpose of voting for civil officers.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ownership, corporation, voting, shares.To vote in opposition to; to balance or overcome by voting; to outvote.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ownership, corporation, voting, shares.One elected by the people of a territory to represent them in Congress, where he has the right of debating, but not of voting.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ownership, corporation, voting, shares.To deprive of a franchise or chartered right; to dispossess of the rights of a citizen, or of a particular privilege, as of voting, ho…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ownership, corporation, voting, shares.
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