Diligence definition:
The degree of attention or care required of a person in a given situation.
In Soper v Canada, Justice Robertson of the Canadian Federal Court of Appeal opined: ...
Diligence Reasonable care or attention to a matter.
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Diligence: The activity required of an inventor and his attorney that must have started just prior to the entry into the field of another "inventor" and continue until the invention is reduced to practice, ...
Due Diligence
The process by which a purchaser of or an investor in a company or business investigates the records of the target to support its value and find out whether there are "skeletons in the cupboard".
Real diligence is that which is proper to heritable or real rights, and of this kind there are two sorts: 1. Inhibitions. 2. Adjudication, which the law has substituted in the place of apprising.
Diligence
Definition - Noun
: earnest and persistent application of effort esp. as required by law
also
: See also care
see also due diligence
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Due Diligence
To perform in a reasonable and responsible manner. The research and analysis of a business or real estate transaction.
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Due DiligenceHere is a term of art seldom understood but frequently seen in the papers of civil lawsuits. In its plain meaning due diligence is the diligence due to a particular matter (hence the term).
Reasonable care and diligence must be taken in collecting the price of merchandise sold on credit. A factor must account to the principal for the proceeds and apply them in the instructed manner.
of 1887: (1) a section similar to that in the Factory and Mines Acts was added, empowering the employer to exempt himself from penalty for contravention of the acts on proof that any other person was the actual offender and of his own due diligence ...
Being a bailee without reward, the depositary is bound to slight diligence only, and he is not therefore answerable except for gross neglect. 1 Dane's Abr. c. 17, art. 2.
In a civil or criminal case, evidence that existed at the time of a motion or trial but that could not have been discovered with reasonable diligence prior to a court ruling upon the motion or the trial's completion.
BAILEE
contracts. One to whom goods are bailed. 2. His duties are to act in good faith he is bound to use extraordinary diligence... more ...
a concept that refers to a vessel and its crew and whether that vessel and crew are able to safely be at sea. The vessel's owner and carrier must act reasonably and with due diligence to ensure the vessel's safety.
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to a defendant who is intentionally absent, in hiding, unknown (as a possible descendant of a former landowner), and only when allowed by a judge's order based on a sworn declaration of the inability to find the defendant after "due diligence" ...
The issue of the warrant and the rights of the warrantee are regulated by statute. A warrant descriptive of the land confers title from date, if followed up with diligence in obtaining a survey. Fox v. Lyon, 27 Pa. 9 (1856).
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