Search results for: “all states formula”
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Plea
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Plea Meaning of Plea An allegation made by either party in a litigation . A defendant ‘s answer of fact to the plaintiffs allegation. A plea in bar is one that goes to the merits of the case and denies […]
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Electoral Quotient According to the Droop Method
Electoral Quotient According to the Droop Method in Voting Law Definition of Electoral Quotient According to the Droop Method in the context of the United States election law: This formula is used in most list proportional representation and single transferable vote systems to allocate seats. […]
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Highest Average Method
Highest Average Method in Voting Law Definition of Highest Average Method in the context of the United States election law: Formula used in party list proportional voting systems to convert votes into seats. The total number of votes for each party or list is divided by a series of divisors […]
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Voir Dire
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Voir dire Meaning of Voir dire A preliminary examination of a witness or venireman to ascertain whether he is competent. Voir Dire Legal Definition “To speak the truth.” Questioning […]
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Electoral Quotient According to the D’hondt Method
Electoral Quotient According to the D’hondt Method in Voting Law Definition of Electoral Quotient According to the D’hondt Method in the context of the United States election law: One of the options for the series of divisors used to distribute seats in list proportional representation […]
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Electoral Quotient According to the D’hondt Method
Electoral Quotient According to the D’hondt Method in Voting Law Definition of Electoral Quotient According to the D’hondt Method in the context of the United States election law: One of the options for the series of divisors used to distribute seats in list proportional representation […]
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Geneva Conventions
Geneva Conventions in Law EnforcementMain Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of Geneva Conventions.ResourcesSee AlsoLaw Enforcement Officer Police Work Law Enforcement Agency Further Reading Geneva […]
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Capitula Itineris
Schedules of inquiry delivered to the justices in eyre before setting out on their circuits, and which were intended to embrace all possible crimes. …
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By God And My Country
In old English criminal practice. The established formula of reply by a prisoner, when arraigned at the bar, to the question, Culprit, how wilt thou be tried? Mr. Barrington thinks the correct formula must originally have been, By God or my country, i. e., by […]
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Breaking And Entering
The charge of breaking and entering really constitutes two separate acts, that of breaking, which is opening a door or window, etc., and that of entering the premises. Breaking is forcibly separating, parting, disintegrating or piercing any solid substances. The phrase is also used to describe […]
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Apportionment of local [or special] assessment
The apportionment of the burden of taxation arising out of a local or special assessment made to pay for locally beneficial governmental improvements, e.g., sidewalks or sewers. Various formulae are possible, e.g., linear feet of benefited property abutting the sidewalks, value of abutting […]
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Apportionment statutes
The term might be used to refer to any statutes governing any apportionment, but it primarily refers to those almost universal statutes which provide that estate taxes payable out of a decedent’s estate shall be apportioned to the beneficiaries of the estate according to a particular […]
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Affecting commerce
Any activity which touches or concerns business or industry. The term is often used in connection with the various federal statutes such as Labor Management Relations Act, Sherman Act, Age Discrimination in Employment Act.
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Adverse interest
Numerous statutes use the term adverse interest, especialy in the formulations parties [or persons] with an adverse interest [or adversely interested]. (The same idea is often expressed more concisely by reference to adverse parties.) […]
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Admitted assets
An insurance-industry term for those assets permitted by the relevant regulatory authority to be taken into account in assessing the financial condition of an insurance company for various purposes. The formulae are often quite complex, but the trend is to consider as not part of admitted […]