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TO RETAIN, practice. To engage the services of an attorney or counsellor to manage a cause, at which time it is usual to give him a fee, called the retaining fee. The act by which the attorney is authorized to act in the case is called a retainer.
2. Although it is not indispensable that the retainer should be in writing, unless required by the other side, it is very expedient. It is therefore recommended, particularly when the client is a stranger, to require from him a written retainer, signed by himself; and, in order to avoid the insinuation that it was obtained by contrivance, it should be witnessed by one or more respectable persons. When there are several plaintiffs, it should be signed by all and not by one for himself and the others, especially if they are trustees or assignees of a bankrupt or insolvent. The retainer should also state whether it be given for a general or a qualified authority. Vide the form of a retainer in 3 Chit. Pr. 116, note m.
3. There is an implied contract on the part of an attorney who has been retained, that he will use due diligence in the course of legal proceedings, but it is not an undertaking to recover a judgment. Wright, R. 446. An attorney is bound to act with the most scrupulous honor, he ought to disclose to his client if he has any adverse retainer which may affect his judgment, or his client's interest; but the concealment of the fact does not necessarily imply fraud. 3 Mason's R. 305; 2 Greenl. Ev. Sec. 139.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.

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On the other hand, if LSB([y.sub.1]) is not equal to [s.sub.1] but F([y.sub.1], [y.sub.2]) is equal to [s.sub.2], adjusting the value [y.sub.1] to [[??].sub.1] by replacing the least-significant bit of [y.sub.1] with its complement can make LSB([[??].sub.1]) equal to [s.sub.1] but F([[??].sub.1], [y.sub.2]) still retainable. Finally, if LSB([y.sub.1]) is equal to [s.sub.1] but F([y.sub.1], [y.sub.2]) is not equal to [s.sub.2], adjusting the value from [y.sub.2] to [[??].sub.2] by replacing the least-significant bit of [y.sub.2] with its complement can make F([y.sub.1], [[??].sub.2]) equal to [s.sub.2] but LSB([y.sub.1]) still retainable.

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The intricacies of war, race and mid-19th Century politics, that culminated in a historic meeting of the two men at the White House, are laid out in the pages of "Abraham Lincoln & Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind an American Friendship" in a way that's accessible and retainable for young readers.

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Diversification and innovation played a major role in the retainable position of Spain.

Spain enjoys a strong position in the global textile market

Another serious disadvantage of horizontal microsections is loss of a retainable record, as each section is destroyed as one proceeds into layers deeper and deeper in a PCB.

The enigmatic breakout angle: a design for quantitatively determining annular ring and breakout angle on PCB innerlayers

This deficit in the input provides a necessary bottleneck between the large number of symbols accrued by each generation of speakers and the number of individual symbols retainable by the new generation (Brighton & Kirby, 'The Survival of the Smallest: Stability Conditions for the Cultural Evolution of Compositional Language', in Kelemen & Sosik, eds., Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECALoi), Springer 2001).

Kate Distin: Cultural Evolution

By exposing students who typically specialize in one discipline and have limited or no understanding of business operations and practical experience in industry-standard ERP software, this game is expected to impart necessary business process orientation and retainable SAP skills to business students in a dynamic and stimulating learning environment.

Enhancing student learning of enterprise integration and business process orientation through an ERP business simulation game

Though the programme has employed the mass movement through campaign mode, utilizing nearly one local facilitator per every 10 adult-learners, based on well-prepared study materials and the strategies that are known to generate involvement of the participants, spending almost 15 hundred rupees per the learner; the outcome is found not retainable. Impediments in the development of literacy among the most backward classes are discussed and a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods for literacy assessment is recommended.

Cracking the Illiteracy Kernel: Need for a New Model

In fact, (d01) is retainable for these data, via (d06).

Vector maximal principles and dependent choice

As long as it is higher than inflation, interest makes job performance retainable. If one were to put money into an account with no interest, it would slowly lose value due to inflation, just as products lose value through deterioration or technical obsolescence.

Conceptos alternativos para una sistema financiero global--una respuesta para la presente crisis financiera

US 7,638,475 B2; Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP, Atlanta, GA, has patented a cleaning system for toilets that has a foaming cleanser sealed within a water soluble pouch that is retainable within a bath tissue roll.

Space-saving toilet cleaning system

Over time, says Lind, "what starts increasingly to occur is the repeat-borrower becomes retainable mostly by the largest lenders, who are [also] their servicers.

The competitive landscape: in the post-meltdown environment, is it better to be big or small when it comes to mortgage lending? Does the competitive landscape favor any one kind of lender over another?

Kuol Manyang pledged 1,500 SDG retainable by state ministry from this month salary.