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GOVERN

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To rule or regulate or control. … [Read more...]

GOOD FAITH ESTIMATE

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Mortgage lenders must provide an honest estimate of all the settlement charges expected to be paid by a home purchaser at closing (e.g. lender's fees) and provided within three days of the application for a loan by the home buyer. … [Read more...]

GOVERNING LAW

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Typically refers to contracts, the law which is to govern the contract's terms in the event a dispute should arise. Usually the state law is set within a contract in a choice of law clause. … [Read more...]

GOVERNMENT

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1. The regulation, restraint, supervision, or control which is exercised upon the individual members of an organized jural society by those invested with the supreme political authority, for the good and welfare of the body politic; or the act of exercising supreme political power or control. 2. The system of polity in a state; that form of fundamental rules and principles by … [Read more...]

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