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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...]

ARBITRATION AGREEMENT

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An agreement or contract between parties to settle a matter in an arbitration proceeding. … [Read more...]

APT

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Fit; suitable; appropriate. Apt time. Apt time sometimes depends upon lapse of time; as, where a thing is required to be done at the first term, or within a given time, it cannot be done afterwards. But the phrase more usually refers to the order of proceedings, as fit or suitable. Pugh v. York, 74 N. C. 383 Apt words. Words proper to produce the legal effect for which they are … [Read more...]

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