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Property which it appears that the owner has relinquished rights and possession, for example, property left intentionally in an empty lot and left as trash. … [Read more...] about ABANDONED PROPERTY

The removal, prostration, or destruction of, that which causes a nuisance, whether by breaking or pulling it down, or otherwise removing, disintegrating, or effacing it Ruff v. Phillips, 50 Ga. 130. The remedy which the law allows a party injured by a nuisance of destroying or removing it by his own act, so as he commits no riot in doing it, nor occasions (in the case of a … [Read more...] about ABATEMENT OF A NUISANCE

practice. The omission of some words or letters in writing; as when fieri facias is written fi. fa. 2. In writing contracts it is the better practice to make no abbreviations; but in recognizances, and many other contracts, they are used; as John Doe tent to prosecute, Richard Roe tent to appear, when the recognizances are used, they are drawn out in extenso. … [Read more...] about ABBREVIATION

To "abide the order of the eourt" means to perform, execute, or conform to such order. Jackson v. State, 30 Kan. 88, 1 Pac. 317; Hodge v. Hodgdon, 8 Cush. (Mass.) 294. See McGarry v. State, 37 Kan. 9, 14 Pac 492. A stipulation in an arbitration bond that the parties shall "abide by" the award of the arbitrators means only that they shall await the award of the arbitrators, … [Read more...] about ABIDE

A party to whom a right or property is abandoned or relinquished by another. Applied to the insurers of vessels and cargoes. Lord Ellenborough, C. J., 5 Maule & S. 82; Abbott, J., Id. 87; Holroyd, J., Id. 89. … [Read more...] about ABANDONEE