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Categories: Property
Definition (1910 Edition)
session has now begun and that the business before the court will be proceeded with—Open a credit. To accept or pay the draft of a correspondent who has not furnished funds. Par dessus, no. —Open a deposition. To. break the seals by which it was secured, and lay it open to view, or to bring it into court ready for use—Open a j ent. To lift or relax the bar of finality and conclusiveness which it imposes so as to permit a re-examination of the merits of the action in which it was rendered. This is done at the instance of a party showing good cause why the execution of the judgment would be inequitable. It so far anmuls the’ judgment as to prevent its enforcement until the final determination upon it, but does not in the mean time release its lien upon real estate. See
Source: Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1910) — Public Domain.
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