{"id":365090,"date":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.findlaw-admin.com\/ability-law\/dictionary\/definition\/settle.html"},"modified":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","slug":"settle","status":"publish","type":"dictionary","link":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/settle.html","title":{"rendered":"Settle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"fl-index-heading\">\n    <p>term:<\/p>\n    <h1 class=\"fl-h1 fl-mb20\"><\/h1>\n\n    <dl class=\"fl-index-heading-description-list\">\n            <dt class=\"fl-mb10\"><p class=\"fl-text-bold\">vb<\/p><\/dt>\n        <dd><p><b>set&#183;tled<\/b><br \/>  <b>set&#183;tling<\/b><br \/>  <i>vt<\/i><br \/>  <b>1<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> to resolve conclusively &#91; a question of law&#93; <br \/>  <b>2<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> to establish or secure permanently &#91;a <i>settled<\/i> legal principle&#93; <br \/>  <b>3<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/close.html\">close <\/a> &#91; the sale of securities&#93; &#91; the estate&#93; <br \/>  <b>4<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> to resolve a disagreement about (a court order) &#91;no hearing to consider these objections and to the order had been conducted &#8220;<i>Saba v. Gray<\/i>, 314 N.W.2d 597 (1981)&#8221;&#93; <br \/>  <b>5 a<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> to fix (a price) by mutual agreement <br \/>  <b>b<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> to conclude (a lawsuit) by entering into an agreement negotiated by the parties usually out of court <br \/>  <b>c<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> to close (as an account) by payment <br \/>  <i>;also<\/i><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> to close by compromise and payment of less than the full amount claimed or due <br \/>  <i>vi<\/i><br \/>  <b>1<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> to conclude a lawsuit by entering into an agreement &#91;the plaintiff chose to out of court&#93; <br \/>  <b>2<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> to make a settlement of a transfer of funds <br \/>  <b>3<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> to adjust differences or accounts &#91;<i>settled<\/i> with his creditors&#93; <\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n    <div class=\"fl-index-heading-source\">Source: Merriam-Webster&#8217;s Dictionary of Law \u00a91996. Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. Published under license with Merriam-Webster, Incorporated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is &#8216;Settle&#8217;? Learn more about legal terms and the law at FindLaw.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":358119,"menu_order":0,"template":"app\/Http\/Controllers\/Templates\/DictionaryArticleController.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","_autodraft_ids":[],"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","_is_real_time_mode":false,"_realtime_collaborators":"","cf_checklist_status":[]},"dictionary_tags":[],"class_list":["post-365090","dictionary","type-dictionary","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/365090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/dictionary"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/358119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"dictionary_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary_tags?post=365090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}