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Term to conclude

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In English ecclesiastical practice. An appointment by the judge of a time at which bath parlies are understood to renounce all further exhibits and allegations. —1Term to propound all things. In English ecclesiastical practice. An appointment by the judge of a time at which both parties are to exhibit ali the acts and instruments which make for their respective causes. In the law of contracts and in eourt practice. The word is generally used in the plural, and "terms" are conditions; propositions stated or promises made which, when assented to or accepted by another, settle the contract and bind the parties.

Webster. See Hutchinson v. Lord, 1 Wis. 313, 60 Am. Dec. 381; State v. Fawcett, 58 Neb. 371, 78 N. W. 636; Rokes v. Amazon Ins. Co., 51 Md. 512, 34 Am. Rep. 323.