2036, the District Court considered (1) whether or not there was a bona fide sale in the transfer of assets to the partnership controlled by the son; and (2) whether or not an express or implied agreement existed that the decedent would retain the economic benefit of the property.
Generally, rocks respond to stress in one of two ways: they break, or they bend. 1  When a rock breaks, it is called brittle deformation. 2  When rocks bend or flow, like clay, it is called ductile deformation.
Nonconformity When igneous or metamorphic rocks are eroded and then covered by younger sedimentary rocks, the contact is called a nonconformity. One of the most famous of these is found in the Grand Canyon, where the oldest sedimentary rocks are more than a billion years younger than the 1.6 billion-year-old metamorphic rocks on which they rest.