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CONTINUING

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Enduring; not terminal ed by a single act or fact; subsisting for a definite period or intended to cover or apply to successive similar obligations or occurrences. As to continuing "Consideration," "Covenant," "Damages," "Guaranty," "Nuisance," and "Offense," see those titles. … [Read more...]

CONTINGENT DAMAGES

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Those given where the issues upon counts to which no demurrer has been filed, are tried, before demurrer to one or more counts in the same declaration has been decided. … [Read more...]

CONTINUING CONSIDERATION

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A continuing consideration is one which in point of time remains good and binding, although it may have served before to Support a contract … [Read more...]

CONTINGENT ESTATE

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A contingent estate depends for its effect upon an event which may or may not happen: as an estate limited to a person not in esse or not yet born. … [Read more...]

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