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  2. List of state applications for an Article V Convention

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    Application classification (or year of application's rescission) Virginia Bill of Rights November 14, 1788: AC V.1 258-259 (II) 2004 New York Bill of Rights February 5, 1789: AC V.1 282 Text (II) Georgia Clarify Amendment X December 12, 1832: J HR V22.2 270-271: II 2004: South Carolina Clarify Amendment X December 19, 1832: J HR V22.2 219-220 ...

  3. Power of appointment - Wikipedia

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    A power of appointment is a term most frequently used in the law of wills to describe the ability of the testator (the person writing the will) to select a person who will be given the authority to dispose of certain property under the will.

  4. Apportionment - Wikipedia

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    The apportionment created by this statute is "apportionment in respect of time." The cases to which it applies are mainly cases of either: apportionment of rent due under leases where at a time between the dates fixed for payment the lessor or lessee dies, or some other alteration in the position of parties occurs; or

  5. Land Ordinance of 1784 - Wikipedia

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    From a letter from Jefferson to James Madison, dated April 25, 1784: "The clause was lost by an individual vote only. Ten states were present. The four eastern states, New York, and Pennsylvania were for the clause; Jersey would have been for it, but there were but two members, one of whom was sick in his chambers. South Carolina, Maryland, and [!]

  6. Indiana Code - Wikipedia

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    The Indiana Code in book form. The Indiana Code is the code of laws for the U.S. state of Indiana. The contents are the codification of all the laws currently in effect within Indiana. With roots going back to the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, the laws of Indiana have been revised many times.

  7. Pour-over will - Wikipedia

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    A pour-over clause in a will gives probate property to a trustee of the testator's separate trust and must be validated either under incorporation by reference by identifying the previously existing trust which the property will be poured into, or under the doctrine of acts of independent significance by referring to some act that has ...

  8. Lapse and anti-lapse - Wikipedia

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    The examples and perspective in this USA-centric article may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. You may improve this USA-centric article, discuss the issue on the talk page, or create a new USA-centric article, as appropriate.

  9. United States congressional apportionment - Wikipedia

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    Allocation of seats by state, as percentage of overall number of representatives in the House, 1789–2020 census. United States congressional apportionment is the process [1] by which seats in the United States House of Representatives are distributed among the 50 states according to the most recent decennial census mandated by the United States Constitution.