default
default the failure to do that which ought to be done. Thus, failure to
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default of pleadings
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make payment under a contract is a default; more specifically, failure to repay or otherwise comply with the terms of a loan agreement are acts of default.
When a defendant fails to take certain necessary steps in a court action, the court may give judgment by default. See DEFAULT OF PLEADINGS.
- agnates
- agricultural holding
- AI
- aid or abet
- AKA
- aleatory contract
- alias
- alias writ
- alibi
- alien
- aliment
- alimony
- allegiance
- allocation of feu duties
- allonge
- allotment of shares
- alluvio
- alteration
- alteration of articles
- alteration of capital
- alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
- alterum non laedere
- altius non tollendi
- ambiguity
- ambulatory