Also known as: fixes · fixed · fixing · rig · bribe · tamper
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To set or establish definitively.
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Congress passes a statute declaring that the meter shall be the official unit of length for all interstate transactions. The law takes effect immediately and binds all federal agencies and regulated industries. Courts later uphold the statute as a valid exercise of enumerated authority.
Grantor conveys Blackacre to Grantee for the life of Grantee and her two children. The deed expressly names the measuring lives and contains no language making the estate end at any fixed calendar date. Title examiners conclude the estate satisfies the requirement of a life-measured duration.
Landlord and Tenant sign a written lease granting possession of a warehouse for exactly thirty-six months beginning January 1. The lease states a precise start date and end date with no renewal option. Both parties treat the arrangement as creating a tenancy for a fixed term.
Store security blocks all exits after suspecting Fabian Flynn of shoplifting and directs him to remain in the manager's office. Flynn stays because he believes he cannot leave without force. The confinement occurs entirely within the physical boundaries set by the security staff.
The board of directors of Franklin Foundry votes to set the annual salary of its new chief financial officer at $275,000 plus a performance bonus. The resolution also authorizes the corporation to extend a low-interest loan to the officer. The compensation package is recorded in the corporate minutes.
Grantor deeds Whiteacre to Grantee for the life of Grantee alone. The deed contains no language allowing the estate to continue after Grantee's death or to end on any fixed date. The estate therefore terminates automatically upon Grantee's death.
No. In each setting the word denotes setting or establishing a definite boundary or duration. The same core action of definitive determination applies whether the subject is an estate term, a lease length, or the physical limits of confinement.
The supplied authorities uniformly employ fix to mean setting or establishing something definitive. Other colloquial uses such as rigging an outcome appear only in secondary materials and are not grounded in the primary rules provided.
…between conception and live birth.[^maj-22] This was "mediate animation." Although Christian theology and the canon law came to fix the point of animation at 40 days for a male and 80 days for a female, a view that persisted until the 19th century, there was otherwise little agreement about the precise time of formation…