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COMMUNITY PROPERTY

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Property that is owned or has been acquired during the course of a marriage (or common law relationship in a jurisdiction that recognizes such), where the title and ownership of the property is joint, akin to tenants in common with ownership of each spouse equally. It excludes that which is from a private source such as via inheritance, private gifts or income or profits from … [Read more...] about COMMUNITY PROPERTY

COMMUNIBUS ANNIS

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In ordinary years; on the annual average. … [Read more...] about COMMUNIBUS ANNIS

COMMUNITY PROPERTY WITH RIGHT OF SURVIVORSHIP

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See community property it is similar to joint ownership with right of survivorship where the death of one spouse allows that spouse's one half-interest in the community property to pass to the surviving spouse without probate. … [Read more...] about COMMUNITY PROPERTY WITH RIGHT OF SURVIVORSHIP

COMMUNICATION

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Information given; the sharing of knowledge by one with another; conference; consultation or bargaining preparatory to making a contract Also intercourse; connection. In French law. The production of a merchant's books, by delivering them either to a person designated by the court, or to his adversary, to be examined in all their parts, and as shall be deemed necessary to the … [Read more...] about COMMUNICATION

COMMUNITY SERVICE

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Work that is of benefit to the community, is unpaid, and usually the result of a sentence or plea that a criminal defendant may receive as a lesser alternative punishment. … [Read more...] about COMMUNITY SERVICE

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