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WITHOUT IMPEACHMENT OF WASTE

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When a tenant for life holds the land without impeachment of waste, he is of course dispunishable for waste whether willful or otherwise. But still this right must not be wantonly abused so as to destroy the estate, and he will be enjoined from committing malicious waste. The effect of the insertion of this clause in a lease for life is to give the tenant the right to cut … [Read more...] about WITHOUT IMPEACHMENT OF WASTE

WITHOUT PREJUDICE

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Most frequently referring to a court procedure where a case or issue is dismissed but allowing the party against whom the dismissal is made to re-litigate or re-present the issue. None of the rights or privileges of the party are lost or waived. It signifies an absence of a decision on the merits and prevents a party from asserting a defense of Res Judicata. For example, a … [Read more...] about WITHOUT PREJUDICE

WITHOUT THIS or WITHOUT THAT

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pleading. These are technical words used in a traverse, for the purpose of denying a material fact in the preceding pleadings, whether declaration, plea, replication In Latin it is called absque hoc. … [Read more...] about WITHOUT THIS or WITHOUT THAT

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WITHOUT RESERVE

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contracts. These words are frequently used in conditions of sale at public auction, that the property offered, or to be offered for sale, will be sold without reserve. A term applied to a sale by auction, indicating that no price is reserved. 2. When a property is advertised to be sold without reserve, if a puffer be employed to bid, and actually bid at the sale, the courts … [Read more...] about WITHOUT RESERVE

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