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  2. Lucky Number Slevin - Wikipedia

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    Lucky Number Slevin (also known as The Wrong Man in Australia) is a 2006 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Paul McGuigan and written by Jason Smilovic. [5] [6] The film stars Josh Hartnett, Lucy Liu, Bruce Willis, Stanley Tucci, Ben Kingsley, and Morgan Freeman.

  3. Barclays Bank Ltd v W J Simms, Son and Cooke (Southern) Ltd

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    mistake, restitution, breach of mandate Barclays Bank Ltd v W J Simms, Son and Cooke (Southern) Ltd [1980] 1 QB 677, [1979] 3 All ER 522 was a decision of the High Court of Justice relating to the recovery of a payment mistakenly made by a bank after the customer had countermanded the cheque .

  4. Pleonasm - Wikipedia

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    Pleonasm. Pleonasm (/ ˈpliː.əˌnæzəm /; from Ancient Greek πλεονασμός (pleonasmós), from πλέον (pléon) 'to be in excess') [1][2] is redundancy in linguistic expression, such as in "black darkness," "burning fire," "the man he said," [3] or "vibrating with motion." It is a manifestation of tautology by traditional ...

  5. Unemployment overpayment: What to do when your state wants ...

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    What to do if you receive an overpayment notice. 1. File an appeal or overpayment waiver with your state. UI isn’t a one-size-fits-all program. Each state has a different way of administering ...

  6. Tautology (language) - Wikipedia

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    Tautology (language) In literary criticism and rhetoric, a tautology is a statement that repeats an idea, using near-synonymous morphemes, words or phrases, effectively "saying the same thing twice". [1][2] Tautology and pleonasm are not consistently differentiated in literature. [3] Like pleonasm, tautology is often considered a fault of style ...

  7. List of Latin legal terms - Wikipedia

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    estate. Landed property, tenement of land, especially with respect to an easement (servitude). 2 types: praedium dominans - dominant estate (aka dominant tenement) praedium serviens - servient estate (aka servient tenement) praeemptio. previous purchase. Right of first refusal. praesumptio. presumption.

  8. Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth - Wikipedia

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    The Wayfinders. Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth is a non-fiction book written by Margaret Atwood, about the nature of debt, for the 2008 Massey Lectures. Each of the book's five chapters was delivered as a one-hour lecture in a different Canadian city, beginning in St. John's, Newfoundland, on October 12 and ending in Toronto on ...

  9. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    List of commonly misused English words. This is a list of English words that are thought to be commonly misused. It is meant to include only words whose misuse is deprecated by most usage writers, editors, and professional grammarians defining the norms of Standard English. It is possible that some of the meanings marked non-standard may pass ...