constructive : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a breach of contract committed prior to the time of required performance
  anticipatory breach.
  

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• (Law), acts having effects analogous to those of some statutory or common law crimes; as, constructive treason. Constructive crimes are no longer recognized by the courts.

Webster 1913

• noun action by a landlord that compels a tenant to leave the premises (as by rendering the premises unfit for occupancy); no physical expulsion or legal process is involved
  eviction.
  

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• noun comprises all acts or omissions or concealments involving breach of equitable or legal duty or trust or confidence
  legal fraud.
  

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• noun the synthesis in living organisms of more complex substances (e.g., living tissue) from simpler ones together with the storage of energy
  anabolism.
  

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• notice imputed by construction of law.

Webster 1913

• noun (law) having the power and intention to have and control property but without direct control or actual presence upon it
  

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• noun a trust created by a court (regardless of the intent of the parties) to benefit a party that has been wrongfully deprived of its rights
  involuntary trust.
  

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• a trust which may be assumed to exist, though no actual mention of it be made.

Webster 1913

• adjective satellite of or relating to anabolism
  energy-storing.
  

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