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Defined in 3 dictionaries — Case Law, Black's (1910), Abbott (1879)

Definitions from Case Law

From 602 U.S. 572 - Moore v. United States · 2024Most cited · 4 citing opinions

to "convert an intangible right or property into real (tangible) property"; to "convert any kind of property (considered as fluctuating or uncertain in value) into money"), with id., at 601 ("derivation" is the "[a]ct of receiving anything from a source, as profits from capital").

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

To convert any kind of property into money; but especially to receive the returns from an investment. See Bitti ner v. Gomprecht, 28 Misc. Rep. 218, 58 N Y. Supp. 1011.

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

Where the plaintiff was to be paid " out of the first money and government scrip realized " by the defendant from the sale of certain lands, it was held that an executory contract for the sale of such lands did not make the defendant liable upon his contract. Stanford u. Greene County, 18 Iowa, 218. Where an owner of land agreed to pay a stipulated percentage in the event he should reahze a specified sum for the land, and he received a bona fide offer for more than that sum, he wa^ held bound to pay the percentage, receiving an offer of $3,500 Bell at that price then, and afterwards could not do so. Lorillard ». Silver, 36 Barb. 132.