SOUNDNESS

In usual health; without any permanent disease. To create unsoundness, it is requisite that the animal should not be useful for the purpose for which he is bought, and that inability to be so useful should arise from disease or accident. … [Read more...] about SOUNDNESS

When an action is brought, not for the recovery of lands, goods, or sums of money, (as is the case in real or mixed actions, or the personal action of debt or detinue,) but for damages only, as in covenant, trespass, the action is said to be sounding in damages. … [Read more...] about SOUNDING IN DAMAGES

The copyright that is obtained as a result of fixation or recording of music or other sounds (including spoken or sung words) onto some medium. The recording can protect the manner in which a performance is performed. Typically the people who claim a copyright in a sound recording may be the performer, producer, or recording company. … [Read more...] about SOUND RECORDING COPYRIGHT

That state of a man's mind which is adequate to reason and comes to a judgment upon ordinary subjects, like other rational men. 2. The law presumes that every person who has acquired his full age is of sound mind, and consequently competent to make contracts and perform all his civil duties; and he who asserts to the contrary must prove the affirmation of his position by … [Read more...] about SOUND MIND

In good health. Healthy. The state of one's body being in reasonably satisfactory physical condition. … [Read more...] about SOUND HEALTH