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REVOCABLE TRUST

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A trust which permits a grantor to revoke or take back the trust corpus or a portion of the trust. … [Read more...]

REVOCATION

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The recall of some power, authority, or thing granted, or a destroying or making void of some deed that bad existence until the act of revocation made it void. It may be either general, of ail acts and things done before; or special, to revoke a particular thing. 5 Coke, 90. See Wilmington City Ry. Co. v. Wilmington & B. S. Ry. Co., 8 Del. Ch. 468, 46 Atl. 12. Revocation by … [Read more...]

REVERSE DISCRIMINATION

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When unfair treatment occurs in the reverse of the usual pattern of discrimination, where members of a minority unfairly treat a member of a majority group, e.g. regarding employment discrimination, where a promotion for a deserving white person is given to a member of another minority group solely on the basis of race. … [Read more...]

REVERSE ENGINEER

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To decompile or disassemble a product or an invention into its basic component parts. With regard to software, this is a conversion of object (machine) code into the source code or other format so that is capable to be manipulated. … [Read more...]

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