perfected

In looking for the gradations by which an organ in any species has been perfected, we ought to look exclusively to its lineal ancestors; but this is scarcely ever possible, and we are forced in each case to look to species of the same group, that is to the collateral descendants from the same original parent-form, in order to see what gradations are possible, and for the chance of some gradations having been transmitted from the earlier stages of descent, in an unaltered or little altered condition.

The question arises as to who has the earliest perfected security interest in this intellectual property and is, therefore, first in line for the collateral and who has an "imperfected" security interest and is left empty-handed.

Subsequently, a number of New York courts issued controversial rulings that a co-op's proprietary lease should not be considered a perfected security agreement.

Activities like Pearl's involve a transfiguration of the self, a metaphysical transaction between self and other in which flesh is deformed to be perfected, as a saint is perfected in martyrdom.

This happens because Latham has consciously perfected a style of writing meant to trigger Pavlovian "We've got to make this a picture' responses among producers.