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APR

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Annual Percentage Rate … [Read more...]

ARAMAIC

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A Semitic language that resembles Hebrew in which the codified Jewish law or Talmud was written and completed circa 500 CE. It was also a popular spoken language in the old Jewish world. … [Read more...]

ARBITRATION ACT

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This is the statute that establishes basic default terms of how an arbitration between parties shall be conducted. … [Read more...]

APROVECHAMIENTO

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In Spanish law. Approvement, or improvement and enjoyment of public lands. As applied to pueblo lands, it has particular reference to the commons, and Includes not only the actual enjoyment of them but a right to such enjoyment. Hart v. Burnett, 15 CaL 530, 566. … [Read more...]

ARATOR

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A plow man; a farmer of arable land. … [Read more...]

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