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A program where manufacturers will make repairs or corrections even beyond the warranty period to avoid a lawsuit and bad publicity. … [Read more...] about SECRET WARRANTY PROGRAM

This word has two significations. 1. It means a warrant of remedy by distress. Litt. s. 218; and vide Rent. 2. It imports want of present fruit or profit, as in the case of the reversion without rent or other service, except fealty. Co. Litt. 151 b, note 5. SECOND. A measure equal to one sixtieth part of a minute. Vide Measure. … [Read more...] about SECK

A measure equal to one sixtieth part of a minute. Vide Measure. This term, as used in law, may denote either sequence in point of time or inferiority or postponement in respect to rank, lien, order, or privilege. As to second "Cousin," "Deliverance," "Distress," "Uen," "Mortgage," and "Surcharge," see those titles. As to "Secondhand Evidence," see EVIDENCE. AS to "Second of … [Read more...] about SECOND

Unpremeditated killing as a result of conduct where the death of the victim was likely. This is unlike first degree murder which is premeditated. … [Read more...] about SECOND DEGREE MURDER

practice. The name of a writ given by statute of Westminster the second, 13 Edw. 1. c. 2, founded on the record of a former action of replevin. It commands the sheriff, if the plaintiff make him secure of prosecuting his claim, and returning the chattels which were adjudged to the defendant by reason of the plaintiff's default, to make deliverance. On being nonsuited, the … [Read more...] about SECOND DELIVERANCE