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Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

adj. Complete; as a perfect obligation, one which possesses all the elements necessary to render it enforceable. Perfect, v.: to make complete; as to perfect an appeal, to perfect bail. A perfect title can mean nothing less than a title which Is good both at law and in equity; and such a title to land cannot rest upon a parol estoppel, especially where by statute conveyances of land must be in writing. Warner v. Middlesex, &c.

Assur. Co., 21 Conn. 444.