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  • 101separate-general verdict — A finding by the jury upon any of the issues in favor of the plaintiff or the defendant. The meaning of the expression is that the verdict is separate as to the particular issue as distinguished from any other issue in the case, and that it is… …

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  • 102separate — sep·a·rate sep (ə ).rāt vb, rat·ed; rat·ing vt 1) to isolate from a mixture: EXTRACT 2) DISLOCATE <separated his right shoulder> vi to become isolated from a mixture …

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  • 103separate school — noun Canadian a publicly funded school receiving pupils from a particular religious group …

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  • 104separate taxation of wife's earnings — An election available before April 1990, in which both parties to a marriage agreed to treat the wife s earnings separately from the husband s, usually as a means of reducing tax. Spouses earnings are now treated separately (see independent… …

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  • 105separate acknowledgment — An acknowledgment by a married woman apart from the acknowledgment by her husband. 1 Am J2d Ack § 2 …

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  • 106separate action — An action brought by a single plaintiff, as distinguished from an action in which two or more persons join as plaintiffs …

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  • 107separate estate of wife — A property owned, held and controlled by a married woman free from the dominion or control by the husband, as provided in equity or by Married Woman s Acts. 26 Am J1st H & W §§ 34 et seq. A property placed by law in the ownership, management, and …

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  • 108separate examination — An examination of a married woman in taking her acknowledgment of her signature, made privately and apart from her husband, with respect to whether her signature was affixed voluntarily and without fear or compulsion of her husband. 1 Am J2d Ack… …

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  • 109separate offenses — Criminal offenses so distinct that the evidence necessary to establish one differs from the evidence necessary to establish the other. 21 Am J2d Crim L § 8 …

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  • 110separate estate — noun : an estate the ownership and control of which is enjoyed by a person free from any rights or control of others; especially : an estate enjoyed by a married woman independent of her husband …

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