Legal Dictionary

Category: Z

  • Zero-for-zero Tariff Reductions

    Zero-for-zero tariff reductions in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, zero-for-zero tariff reductions is: a request/offer system for the achievement of tariff reductions in which the parties involved aim at reducing tariffs to zero (i.e. The entries on trade policy are here. At eliminating […]

  • Zero

    Grammar This term is a noun. Etimology of Zero (You may find zero at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms). figure which stands for naught in the Arabic notation, also “the absence of all quantity considered as quantity,” c. 1600, from French zéro or […]

  • Zebra List

    Zebra List in Voting Law Definition of Zebra List in the context of the United States election law: Term used mostly in west and southern Africa to describe a way in which candidates’ names are presented on a party’s list: male and female candidates alternate, so that a male candidate […]

  • Zoning Variance

    Zoning Variance in the context of Real Property See: Variance in this legal Dictionary.

  • Zoning

    Zoning is the act of prescribing the mode in which lands within certain stated divisions of a municipality can be used by their owners or occupants. The legislative division of a community into areas in each of which only certain designated uses of land are permitted so that the community […]

  • Zakat

    Grammar This term is a noun. Etimology of Zakat (You may find zakat at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms). obligatory Islamic tax for religious purposes, 1802, from Persian zakat, etc., from Arabic zakah.

  • Zero-sum Game

    A type of game wherein one player can gain only at the expense of another player….

  • Zero Interest Mortgage

    Concept of Zero Interest Mortgage in the context of Real Property A short definition of Zero Interest Mortgage: A note and mortgage under which interest accrues but is not paid until the end of the term of the loan.

  • Zoning Ordinance

    Concept of Zoning Ordinance in the context of Real Property A short definition of Zoning Ordinance: A law (generally at the city or county level) controlling the use of land and construction of improvements in a given area (zone).

  • Zygocephalum

    Concept of Zygocephalum in the context of Real Property A short definition of Zygocephalum: In civil law an inaccurate measure of land. The area of land a yoke of oxen could plow in one day.

  • Zone

    Concept of Zone in the context of Real Property Alternatives definitions of Zone: (1) An area of a county or city in which the use of the land is restricted by law (zoning ordinance). (2) An area designated by a number for the delivery of mail. Zip codes incorporate the zones. Concept of Zone […]

  • Zero Population Growth

    Zero Population Growth

    A stable population size achieved by each couple having two children to replace themselves.

  • Zoning Map

    Concept of Zoning Map in the context of Real Property A short definition of Zoning Map: A map of a community showing the zones of permitted use under zoning ordinances.

  • Zero Coupon Bond

    Such a debt security pays an investor no interest. It is sold at a discount to its face price and matures in one year or longer….

  • Zoning Law

    ResourcesSee AlsoLaw Dictionaries.Environmental Audit City Planning. ADDITION RULE.Further ReadingAttard, Janet. The Home Office and Small Business Answer Book. Henry Holt, 1993. Ba…