contracts. Relate either to real or personal estate, or to both. An article is a memorandum or minute of an agreement, reduced to writing to make some future disposition or modification of property; and such an instrument will create a trust or equitable estate, of which a specific performance will be decreed in chancery. 2. This instrument should contain: 1, the name and … [Read more...]

To come to a particular place; to reach a particular or certain place as, the ship United States arrived in New York. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition To reach or come to a particular place of destination by traveling towards it. Thompson v. United States, 1 Brock. 411, Fed. Cas. No. 407. In insurance law. To reach that particular place or point in a harbor which … [Read more...]

An agreement made that adds to and/or modifies part of an earlier agreement, which remains intact except for any changes that may appear in the amendment. … [Read more...]

A term to denote an agreement or relationship where neither party has control over another, e.g. the arm of one party cannot reach out to affect the other party. … [Read more...]

Money remaining unpaid after it becomes due as rent unpaid interest remaining due; a sum of money remaining in the hands of an accountant. Also may revert to overdue alimony or child support payments, all of which are usually not able to be discharged in bankruptcy or retroactively canceled by the court. … [Read more...]