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PERFORM

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To perform an obligation or contract is to execute, fulfill, or accomplish it according to its terms. This may consist either in action on the part of the person bound by the contract or in omission to act according to the nature of the subject matter; but the term is usually applied to any action in discharge of a contract other than payment. … [Read more...] about PERFORM

PERDURABLE

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As applied to an estate, perdurable signifies lasting long or forever. Thus, a disseisor or tenant in fee upon condition has as high and great an estate as the rightful owner or tenant in fee simple absolute, but not so perdurable. The term is chiefly used with reference to the extinguishment of rights by unity of seisin, which does not take place unless both the right and the … [Read more...] about PERDURABLE

PERFORMANCE

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The fulfillment or accomplishment of a promise, contract, or other obligation according to its terms. Part performance. The doing some portion, yet not the whole, of what either party to a contract has agreed to do. Borrow v. Borrow, 34 Wash. 684, 76 Pac. 305. Specific performance. Performance of a contract in the specific form in which it was made, or according to the precise … [Read more...] about PERFORMANCE

PEREGRINI

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Latin: In Roman law. The class of peregrini embraced at the same time both those who had no capacity in law, (capacity for rights or Jural relations,) namely, the slaves, and the members of those nations which had not established amicable relations with the Roman people. Sav. Dr. Rom. … [Read more...] about PEREGRINI