Search results for: “enact”
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Minister
Minister in Law Enforcement Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of minister. Grammar This term is a noun. Etimology of Minister (You may find minister at the world legal encyclopedia and the […]
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Provision
A clause in a legal document. Any right of patronage exerted by the Pope. In English law, a name given to certain statutes or acts of parliament such as Provisions of Oxford (1258), Provisions of westminster (1259). The term provision was the word used originally to designate an […]
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Common Law
Common law in Law Enforcement Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of common law. Grammar This term is a noun. Etimology of Common Law (You may find common law at the world legal encyclopedia and the […]
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Age of majority
The chronological age at which a person ceases to be a minor, and, subject to whatever legal disabilities minority carries with it (e.g., inability to vote, to drink intoxicating liquors, to drive on the public highways, to make valid contracts, conveyances and wills) while […]
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Judicial Power
A power of a court to hear, decide and pronounce a judgment upon controversies presented to it and implies the construction of law and the adjudication of legal rights . To be distinguished from legislative power which is the power to enact laws or to declare what the law shall […]
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Ordinance
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Ordinance Meaning of Ordinance A subordinate legislation promulgated with the authority of a properly established body of the government , such as a city or town. See Skalnik v Town of Sperry, (Okl.App.) […]
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Genetic Labelling
Genetic labelling in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, genetic labelling is: a system of product labelling advocated by some to indicate whether the product or its components have been modified genetically. Proponents argue that doing so is in the interest of consumers and users. The […]
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Genetic Labelling
Genetic labelling in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, genetic labelling is: a system of product labelling advocated by some to indicate whether the product or its components have been modified genetically. Proponents argue that doing so is in the interest of consumers and users. The […]
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Fiat
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Fiat Meaning of Fiat A decree ; an authority issuing from some competent source for the doing of some legal act. The word in Latin means let it be done and in English law refers to a short order or […]
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Fiat
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Fiat Meaning of Fiat A decree ; an authority issuing from some competent source for the doing of some legal act. The word in Latin means let it be done and in English law refers to a short order or […]
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Commission
An authority to do some act, such as the authority of an agent to enter into a contract or the authority of an officer to hold the office or title . An amount payable to an agent upon the agent performing the act contracted for. Usually expressed in terms of a percentage , but […]
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Battel
Trial by combat. It was called also wager of battel or battaile,’ and could be claimed in appeals of felony. It was of frequent use in affairs of chivalry and honor, and in civil cases upon certain issues. Co. Litt. ç 294. It was not abolished in England […]