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Definition of Adeems
1. adeem [v] - See also: adeem
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adeems
Literary usage of Adeems
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law of Wills by Isaac Fletcher Redfield (1866)
"Where the portion is less than the legacy it only adeems it, pro tanto. 3.
It will not prevent the ademption, although there should be considerable ..."
2. A Treatise on Equity Jurisprudence: As Administered in the United States of by John Norton Pomeroy (1881)
"... unless the second instrument, in express terms or by presumption of law, adeems
the gift made hy thu instrument of earlier date, no question can arise; ..."
3. The Principles of Equity: Intended for the Use of Students and the Profession by Edmund Henry Turner Snell, John Richard Griffith (1874)
"Again, if the second instrument in terms adeems the gift by the first, it could
not, I apprehend, be contended that it would not produce its intended effect ..."
4. The Revised Reports by Robert Campbell, Frederick Pollock, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1904)
"Again, if the second instrument in terms adeems the gift by the first, it could
not, I apprehend, be contended * that it would not produce its intended ..."
5. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by David Shephard Garland, John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie (1890)
"Again, if the second instrument in terms adeems the gift by the first, it could
not, I apprehend, be contended that it would not produce its intended effect ..."
6. Principles of Equity by Walter Ashburner (1902)
"The question whether one gift by way of portion adeems or satisfies another, is
determined (in the absence of direct evidence of intention), first, ..."
7. Reports of Cases Adjudged in the High Court of Chancery: Before the Right by Great Britain Court of Chancery, James Wigram, James Lewis Knight Bruce, George James Turner, William Page Wood Hatherley (1845)
"Again, if the second instrument in terms adeems the gift by the first, it could
not, I apprehend, ..."
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