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Usually referring to a company set up for no purpose except to act as a cover or shield against liability to third parties and which is merely a puppet of the person or party protected. Such a corporation or company is defeated when a party pierces the corporate veil and exposes the alter ego company as a sham. … [Read more...] about ALTER EGO

A child which one has nursed ; a foster child. Dig. 40, 2, 14. One educated at a college or seminary is called an "alumnus" thereof. … [Read more...] about ALUMNUS

Variation; changing; making different. See Alter. An alteration is an act done upon the instrument by which its meaning or language is changed. If what is written upon or erased from the instrument has no tendency to produce this result, or "to mislead any person, it is not an alteration. Oliver y. Hawley, 5 Neb. 444. An alteration is said to be material when it affects, or may … [Read more...] about ALTERATION

The bed or channel through which the stream flows when it runs within its ordinary channel. Calvin. Alveus derelictus, a deserted channel. Mackeld. Rom. Law, … [Read more...] about ALVEUS

A usage among diplomats ,by which the rank and places of different powers, who have the same right and pretensions to precedence, are changed from time to time, either in a certain regular order or one determined by lot. In drawing up treaties and conventions, for example, it Is the usage of certain powers to alternate, both in the preamble and the signatures, so that each … [Read more...] about ALTERNAT