SKIP PERSON

For tax purposes, to skip a generation in order to pass on property to further generations and minimize any tax liability, e.g. from grandparent to grandson. … [Read more...] about SKIP PERSON

contracts. The art of doing a thing as it ought to be done. 2. Every person who purports to have skill in la business, and undertakes for hire to perform it, is bound to do it with ordinary skill, and is responsible civilly in damages for the want of it; and sometimes he is responsible criminally. 3. The degree of skill and diligence required, rises in proportion to the value … [Read more...] about SKILL

In the practice of the English high court, when a view by a jury hi ordered, persons are named by the court to show the property to be viewed, and are hence called "shewers." There Is usually a shewer on behalf of each party. Archb. Pr. 339, et seq. … [Read more...] about SKEWER

com. law. A blank paper, properly stamped, in those countries where stamps are required, with the name of a person signed at the bottom. 2. In such case the person signing the paper will be held as the drawer or acceptor, as it may be, of any bill which shall afterwards be written above his name to the sum of which the stamp is applicable. … [Read more...] about SKELETON BILL

Servants of the same nature as rod flights, (Q. v.) Anc. Inst Eng. … [Read more...] about SIXHINDI