A notice given by a landlord to a tenant to leave the premises within a certain period of time. Typically this notice is given to tenants who stay past the end of a lease period and the tenant is given a 30 day notice to vacate the premises. … [Read more...]

To give notice, to inform someone or a party to an action. In legal proceedings, and in respect to public matters, this word is generally, if not universally, used as importing a notice given by some person, whose duty it was to give it, in some manner prescribed, and to some person entitled to receive It, or be notified. Appeal of Potwine, 31 Conn. 384. … [Read more...]

As soon as a notary has made presentment and demand of a bill of exchange, or at some seasonable hour of the same day, he makes a minute on the bill, or on a ticket attached thereto, or in his book of registry, consisting of his initials, the month, day, and year, the refusal of acceptance or payment, the reason, if any, assigned for such refusal, and his charges of protest. … [Read more...]

Lat. In the civil law. The power of hearing and trying a matter of fact; the power pr authority of a judex; the power of hearing causes and of pronouncing sentence, without any degree of Jurisdiction. Calvin; … [Read more...]

The notice given by the holder of a bill of exchange or promissory note, to a drawer or endorser on the same, that it has been dishonored, either by not being accepted in the case of a bill, or paid in cue of an accepted bill or note. 2. It is proper to consider, 1. The form of the notice; 2. By whom it is to be given; 3. To whom. 4. When; 5. Where; 6. Its effects; 7. When a … [Read more...]