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CID

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Abbreviation for a common interest development. … [Read more...] about CID

CIRCUITY OF ACTION

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This occurs where a litigant, by a complex, indirect, or roundabout course of legal proceeding, makes two or more actions necessary, in order to effect that adjustment of rights between all the parties concerned in the transaction which, by a more direct course, might have been accomplished in a single suit … [Read more...] about CIRCUITY OF ACTION

CIF

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Abbreviation for Cost, Insurance and Freight which usually refers to the sale price being the entire amount for which the buyer must pay, which includes delivery to the place specified by the buyer. … [Read more...] about CIF

CIRCUITY OFACTION

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practice, remedies. It is where a party, by bringing an action, gives an action to the defendant against him. 2. As, supposing the obligee of a bond covenanted that he would not sue on it; if he were to sue he would give an. action against himself to the defendant for a breach of his covenant. The courts prevent such circuitous actions, for it is a maxim of law, so to judge of … [Read more...] about CIRCUITY OFACTION

CIMA

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Chartered Institute of Management Accountants … [Read more...] about CIMA

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