SURRENDER BY OPERATION OF LAW

To surrender property as a result of a law, for example, the termination of a lease and surrender of the property by the tenant. … [Read more...] about SURRENDER BY OPERATION OF LAW

estates, conveyancing. A yielding up of an estate for life or years to him who has an immediate estate in reversion or remainder, by which the lesser estate is merged in the greater by mutual agreement, Co. Litt. 337, b. 2. A surrender is of a nature directly opposite to a release; for, as the latter operates by the greater estate descending upon the less, the former is the … [Read more...] about SURRENDER

In pleading. The plaintiff's answer of fact to the defendant's rejoinder. Steph. PI. 59. … [Read more...] about SURREJOINDER

pleading. The plaintiff's answer to the defendant's rebutter is governed by the same rules as the replication. … [Read more...] about SURREBUTTER

This term is frequently used in courts of equity and by writers on equity jurisprudence. It signifies the act by which a party who is entering into a contract is taken unawares, by which sudden confusion or perplexity is created, which renders it proper that a court of equity should relieve the party so surprised. It is sometimes, used in this sense when it is deemed … [Read more...] about SURPRISE