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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

PER MITTER LE DROIT

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L. Fr. By passing the right One of the modes by which releases at common law were said to inure was "per mitter le droit" as where a person who had been disseised released to the disseisor or his heir or feofee. In such case, by the release, the right which was in the releasor was added to the possession of the releasee, and the two combined perfected the estate. Miller v. … [Read more...] about PER MITTER LE DROIT