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An adverb used in formal legal writing to refer back to a previously mentioned thing, place, issue, or matter.
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Theo Thomas directed an employee to execute documents transferring a long-term lease on farmland owned by Threshold Capital. He arranged the transfer to benefit himself and an associate not entitled to the interest. The conduct satisfied the elements of theft because the purpose was to benefit a person not entitled thereto.
Theresa Tucker and Thunderbolt Motors executives signed a one-page document outlining an exclusive two-year supply arrangement. The writing described the subject matter and essential terms in detail. It was sufficient to indicate that a contract with respect thereto had been made between the parties.
Tristan Thompson obtained copies of a state court judgment from State A. The clerk attached the court seal and a judge's certificate confirming proper form. The authenticated records were entitled to full faith and credit in federal court when the seal was affixed thereto.
Thaddeus Tran, as personal representative of an estate, demanded delivery of tangible personal property from an heir. The heir refused, claiming presumptive entitlement. The representative could maintain an action to recover possession because the request was conclusive evidence that possession by the representative was necessary for administration of the property subject thereto.
Tanya Tang executed a document creating a revocable trust and later signed an amendment adding a successor trustee. The amendment was part of the trust instrument because it contained terms of the trust, including any amendments thereto.
Theodore Tucker and Torchlight Media sought dissolution of marriage in a proceeding where the court lacked personal jurisdiction over one spouse. The court equitably apportioned all property and assets belonging to either or both parties however and whenever acquired, and whether the title thereto was in the name of the husband or wife or both.
It refers back to a previously mentioned thing, place, issue, or matter. Courts and drafters use the term to avoid repetition while maintaining precision in legal texts.
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It identifies the person who lacks entitlement to the benefit of an unlawful transfer of immovable property. The phrase completes the mental-state element by specifying the intended recipient of the benefit.
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No. It consistently points back to the antecedent noun or phrase, whether that antecedent is a contract, property interest, amendment, or title.
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…. . a power not delegated by the Constitution, but, on the contrary, expressly and positively forbidden by one of the amendments theretoa power which, more than any other, ought to produce universal alarm, because it is levelled against the right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication…