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A rental agreement providing for a one month tenancy automatically renewing at the end of the month unless either the landlord or tenant terminates the agreement by providing prior written notice, which usually requires 30 days notice (and in some cases, 30 days prior to the beginning of the one month tenancy.) In most states, this type of tenancy can be terminated for any … [Read more...] about MONTH TO MONTH TENANCY

Latin: In the civil law. Delay: default; neglect; culpable delay or default Calvin. Sax. A moor; barren or unprofitable ground; marsh; a heath; a watery bog or moor. A watery or boggy moor; a morass. Mora reprobatur in lege. Delay is reprobated in law. … [Read more...] about MORA

1. Anything by which the memory of a person or an event is preserved or perpetuated. A tomb where a dead body has been deposited. 2. In real property law and surveying, monuments are visible marks or indications left on natural or other objects indicating the lines and boundaries of a survey. In this sense the term includes not only posts, pillars, stone markers, cairns, and … [Read more...] about MONUMENT

1. Pertaining or relating to the conscience or moral sense or to the general principles of right conduct. 2. Cognizable or enforceable only by the conscience or by the principles of right conduct, as distinguished from positive law. 3. Depending upon or resulting from probability; raising a belief or conviction in the mind independent of strict or logical proof. 4. Involving or … [Read more...] about MORAL

Permanent landmarks established for the purpose of ascertaining boundaries. 2. Monuments may be either natural or artificial objects, as rivers, known streams, springs, or marked trees. 3. When monuments are established, they must govern, although neither courses, nor distances, nor 'computed' contents correspond. … [Read more...] about MONUMENTS