Notice that is a legal fiction where a reasonably diligent person is assumed to have known about something even if they did not receive actual notice. Where a party that didn't have actual notice is treated as if they had received actual notice. For example, the court may provide that a notice nailed to a party's door or published in a popular newspaper should be sufficient for … [Read more...]

Section 1 Each State to Honor all others Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof. … [Read more...]

In the civil law. One who, by a simple agreement, becomes responsible for the payment of another's debt. … [Read more...]

Section 2 State citizens, Extradition The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. A Person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall on demand of the executive Authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be … [Read more...]

In the civil law. An agreement to pay a subsisting debt which exists without any stipulation, whether of the promisor or another party. It differs from a stipulation in that it must be for an existing debt. Du Cange Constitutum esse eam domum unicuique nostrum debere existimari, ubi debere existimari, ubi quisque sedes et tabulas haberet; suarumque rerum constitutionem … [Read more...]