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Something that is immediately effective and does not require outside action or other legal steps to complete. … [Read more...] about SELF-EXECUTING

Money deposited as security to ensure that some event occurs or does not occur. For example, in landlord tenant law a security deposit is collected by a landlord from a tenant to ensure that the final month's rent has been paid and that the tenant has left the premises in the same condition as the property was given to the tenant (less reasonable wear and tear) and that the … [Read more...] about SECURITY DEPOSIT

An injury for which a master may have an action on the case. … [Read more...] about SEDUCING TO LEAVE SERVICE

practice. In some courts there is a rule that when the plaintiff resides abroad he shall give security for costs, and until that has been done, when demanded, he cannot proceed in his action. 2. This is a right which the defendant must claim in proper time, for if he once waives it, he cannot afterwards claim it; the waiver is seldom, or perhaps never expressly made, but is … [Read more...] about SECURITY FOR COSTS

The act of a man in enticing a woman to commit unlawful sexual intercourse with him, by means of persuasion, solicitation, promises, bribes, or other means without the employment of force. In order to constitute seduction, the defendant must use insinuating arts to overcome the opposition of the seduced, and must by his wiles and persuasions, without force, debauch her. This … [Read more...] about SEDUCTION