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CONVEY

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To pass or transmit the title to property from one to another; to transfer property or the title to property by deed or instrument under seal. To convey real estate is by an appropriate instrument to transfer the legal title to it from the present owner to another. Convey relates properly to the disposition of real property not to personal. … [Read more...] about CONVEY

CONVENTION

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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

CONVEYANCE

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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

CONTUSION

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In medical jurisprudence. A bruise; an injury to any external part of the body by the impact of a fall or the blow of a blunt Instrument, without laceration of the flesh, and either with or without a tearing of the skin, but in the former case it is more properly called a "contused wound." … [Read more...] about CONTUSION