pecuniary obligation

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• obligation — ob·li·ga·tion /ˌä blə gā shən/ n 1: a promise, acknowledgment, or agreement (as a contract) that binds one to a specific performance (as payment); also: the binding power of such an agreement or indication held that the amendment did not… …   Law dictionary

• pecuniary liability — A personal, joint, or corporate monetary obligation to make good any lost, damaged, or destroyed property resulting from fault or neglect. It may also result under conditions stipulated in a contract or bond …   Military dictionary

• moral obligation — A duty arising from or connected with what was once a legal liability or from the receipt of benefit of a material or pecuniary nature. 17 Am J2d Contr §§ 132 et seq. An obligation arising from ethical motives, or a mere conscientious duty,… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• OBLIGATIONS, LAW OF — This law is concerned with the rights of one person as against those of another (jus in personam), as distinguished from the law of property, which is concerned with a person s rights in a chattel or other property as against the world at large… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• financial — financially, adv. /fi nan sheuhl, fuy /, adj. 1. pertaining to monetary receipts and expenditures; pertaining or relating to money matters; pecuniary: financial operations. 2. of or pertaining to those commonly engaged in dealing with money and… …   Universalium

• financial — fi•nan•cial [[t]fɪˈnæn ʃəl, faɪ [/t]] adj. 1) pertaining or relating to money matters; pecuniary 2) of or pertaining to those commonly engaged in dealing with money and credit • Etymology: 1760–70 fi•nan′cial•ly, adv. syn: financial, fiscal,… …   From formal English to slang

• DOWRY — (Heb. נְדֻנְיָה), the property a wife brings to her husband at marriage; the Yiddish equivalent, nadn, is from the same root. The custom of nedunyah became clearly defined and institutionalized only in the talmudic period. In biblical times,… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• lump-sum settlement — The payment of an entire debt all at once rather than in installments; the payment of a set amount of money to satisfy a pecuniary obligation that might otherwise continue indefinitely. Dictionary from West s Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.… …   Law dictionary

• Welsh — Welsh, v. t. & i. (a) To cheat by avoiding payment of bets; said esp. of an absconding bookmaker at a race track. [Slang] (b) To avoid dishonorably the fulfillment of a pecuniary obligation. [Slang] [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• liability — noun (plural ties) Date: 1705 1. a. the quality or state of being liable b. probability 2. something for which one is liable; especially pecuniary obligation ; debt usually used in plural 3. one that acts as a disadvantage ; …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple — KG, PC (September 26, 1711 ndash; September 12, 1779) was an English politician.The eldest son of Richard Grenville (1678–1727) of Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire and of Hester, later Countess Temple, he was educated at Eton College, and in… …   Wikipedia