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A lawsuit that is filed by two or more parties as a result of a common issue in controversy. … [Read more...] about JOINT CAUSE OF ACTION

In old English law. A game of hazard. Reg. Orig. 290. … [Read more...] about JOCUS

One in which the contractors are jointly bound to perform the promise or obligation therein contained, or entitled to receive the benefit of such promise or obligation. 2. It is a general rule that a joint contract survives, whatever may be the beneficial interests of the parties under it; where a partner, covenantor, or other person entitled, having a joint interest in a … [Read more...] about JOINT CONTRACT

In old English practice. A divided game, risk, or hazard. An arrangement which the parties to a suit were anciently sometimes allowed to make by mutual agreement upon a certain hazard, as that one should lose if the case turned out in a certain way, and, if it did not, that the other should gain. Bract fols. 211b, 379b, 432, 434, 200b. … [Read more...] about JOCUS PARTITUS

Two or more persons or parties who are jointly entitled to the satisfaction and payment of the same debt. … [Read more...] about JOINT CREDITORS