written+instrument

  • 121mutual mistake — As justifying reformation of an instrument is one common to both or all parties, where each party labors under the same misconception respecting a material fact, the terms of the agreement, or the provision of a written instrument designed to… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 122date — The specification or mention, in a written instrument, of the time (day, month and year) when it was made (executed). Also the time so specified. In its common and accepted statutory meaning refers simply to day, month and year. Anderson v. State …

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  • 123mutual mistake — As justifying reformation of an instrument is one common to both or all parties, where each party labors under the same misconception respecting a material fact, the terms of the agreement, or the provision of a written instrument designed to… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 124authentication — Such official attestation of a written instrument as will render it legally admissible in evidence. Mayfield v Sears, 133 Ind 86, 88, 32 NE 816. The act or mode of giving legal authority to a statute, record or other written instrument, or a… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 125date — The time of an occurrence or happening; an indication of time, as upon a coin or an instrument. The date of a written instrument means the year, month, and day of its execution. Estate of Carpenter, 172 Cal 268, 156 P 464. The word is frequently… …

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  • 126power of attorney — A written instrument, known as a power of attorney, letter of attorney, or warrant of attorney, People v Smith, 112 Mich 192, 70 NW 466, by which one person, as principal, appoints another as his agent and confers upon him the authority to… …

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  • 127voucher — A receipt or other evidence of payment. An account book in which charges and acquittances are entered. Whitwell v Willard, 42 Mass 216, 218. A cancelled check. 40 Am J1st Paym § 288. A written instrument which attests, warrants, maintains, and… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 128delivery — de·liv·ery n pl er·ies: an act that shows a transferor s intent to make a transfer of property (as a gift); esp: the transfer of possession or exclusive control of property to another actual delivery: a delivery (as by hand or shipment) of actual …

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