Also known as: put · put option · put options
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Places a person or thing into a specified legal state or condition.
Patrick Phan faces charges for a capital crime while serving in the armed forces during wartime. The government attempts a second prosecution after acquittal. This puts Phan twice in jeopardy of life or limb in violation of the Fifth Amendment.
Paige Porter approaches a victim on the street and threatens immediate serious bodily injury while taking the victim's wallet. The threat satisfies the element that the defendant purposely puts the victim in fear of immediate serious bodily injury.
Portia Price swings a fist toward Pablo Perez's face intending to cause harmful contact. Perez sees the swing and believes contact is imminent. The swing puts Perez in such imminent apprehension of harmful contact.
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Preston Pratt controls a key contract that Phoenix Technologies needs to prove its case. Phoenix Technologies serves pleadings putting Pratt on notice that the contract will be offered at trial. Pratt fails to produce the document at the hearing.
Peter Park mails an acceptance of an offer in the manner invited by the offer. The acceptance completes mutual assent as soon as it is put out of Park's possession even though it has not yet reached the offeror.
Premier Manufacturing leases a retail space to Pulse Media knowing the entrance ramp has an unreasonable risk of harm to customers. Pulse Media admits the public before the ramp is put in safe condition. The landlord is subject to liability for resulting physical harm.
The verb satisfies the element that the defendant purposely puts the victim in fear of immediate serious bodily injury during the course of a theft.
It completes the assault when the actor's intentional act causes the other person to experience the required apprehension of harmful or offensive contact.
It allows secondary evidence when the opposing party had control of the original, received notice that the original would be offered at trial, and fails to produce it.
The acceptance becomes operative and completes mutual assent as soon as it is put out of the offeree's possession when sent in a manner invited by the offer.