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(A) contracts, civil law. A general term which comprehends all kinds of contracts, treaties, pacts, or agreements. It is defined to be the consent of two or more persons to form with each other an engagement, or to dissolve or change one which they had previously formed. (B) legislation. This term is applied to a selecting of the delegates elected by the people for other … [Read more...] about CONVENTION

contracts. The transfer of the title to land by one or more persons to another or others. By the term persons is here understood not only natural persons but corporations. The instrument which conveys the property is also called a conveyance. The whole of a conveyance, when it consists of different parts or instruments, must be taken together, and the several parts of it relate … [Read more...] about CONVEYANCE

Depending on or arising from the mutual agreement of parties; as distinguished from legal which means created by or arising from the act of the law. As to conventional "Estates" "Interest" "Mortgage" "Subrogation" and "Trustees" see those titles. … [Read more...] about CONVENTIONAL

The act of congress, approved the 29th July, 1850, entitled an act to provide for recording the conveyances of vessels and for other purposes, enacts that no bill of sale, mortgage, hypothecation or conveyance of any vessel, or part of any vessel of the United States, shall be valid against any person, other than the grantor or mortgagor, his heirs and devisees, and persons … [Read more...] about CONVEYANCE OF VESSELS

civil law. A conventional heir is one who takes a succession by virtue of a contract; for example, a marriage contract, which entitles the heir to the succession. … [Read more...] about CONVENTIONAL HEIR