Search results for: “common legal abbreviations”
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Cash Flow Per Common Share
Cash flow from operations minus preferred stock dividends, divided by the number of common shares outstanding….
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Keeping Common Gaming House
A common-law offense, indictable as a criminal nuisance on account of its tendency to bring together disorderly persons, promote immorality, and lead to breaches of the peace. By judicial evolution and legislative enactment the common-law offense has been so broadened in its scope as to include […]
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Common Knowledge
nounaccepted fact acknowledgment announcement annunciation avowance declaration disclosure dissemination experience exposé familiarity general information history …
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Commons
A group of people eating at a common table as in a college ; the provisions so furnished; allowance of food, rations, fare. A tract of land that is open and free for the purpose of the general enjoyment and amusement of members of the public . Part of the land belonging to the lord…
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Common Employment
The doctrine of common employment has now been abolished either totally or severely limited in most states, both by statute and judicial decisions. The original doctrine was to the effect that where an employer employs competent workers, provides an adequate system of work and […]
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Right Of Common
A right exercised by one in the land of another with the additional right to participate in the profits of the soil, or take a part thereof or some of the produce of the land. At common law it was an incorporeal hereditament and was classified into four categories namely, common of pasture, of […]
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Legal Title, Legal Interest
A title or interest that is recognized by common law, as distinguished from an equitable title or interest.
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Federal Common Law
While it has been said that there is no federal common law, after Erie Railroad v Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64, 82 L.Ed. 1188, 58 S.Ct. 817, it has been held that a federal common law exists in certain areas, such as air and water disputes between states. See Illinois v Milwaukee, 406 U.S. 91, 92…
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Common Authority
For purpose of rule that person possessing common authority over premises may consent to a warrantless search thereof, the common authority justifying the consent need only rest on mutual use of the property by persons having joint access or control for most purposes. See U.S. v Gulma, […]
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Common Enterprise
For the purpose of laws relating to securities registration or blue sky laws, a common enterprise exists where there is more than one investor and the investors expect to reap profits from the efforts of the promotor or a third party. Even though there need not be a common fund, the term […]
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Common Fund
The doctrine provides that private plaintiff, or his attorney, whose efforts create, discover, increase or preserve a fund to which others also have a claim is entitled to recover from the fund the costs of his litigation, including attorney’s fees. See Vincent v Hughes Air West, Inc., […]
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United States
The term may be used in one of several senses, either as the name of a sovereign occupying the position analogous to that of other sovereigns in the family of nations, or as designating the territory over which the sovereignty of the United States extend, or as the collective nane of the States […]
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Farmer
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Farmer Meaning of Farmer One who owns and operates a farm. Farmer Alternative Definition The lessee of a farm. It is said that every lessee for life or […]