Search results for: “enact”
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Clause
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Clause Meaning of Clause A single paragraph or subdivision of a paragraph in a legal document. Part of a sentence in such a document Clause Alternative Definition […]
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Clause
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Clause Meaning of Clause A single paragraph or subdivision of a paragraph in a legal document. Part of a sentence in such a document Clause Alternative Definition […]
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Authorities
Enactments and opinions relied upon as establishing or declaring the rule of law which is to be applied in any case. The opinion of a court, or of counsel, or of a text writer upon any question, Is usually fortified by a citation of authorities. …
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Code
United States Code Resources See Also Law Dictionaries. Congress, United States. Further Reading Cohen, Morris, Robert C. Berring, and Kent C. Olson. How to Find the Law. St. Paul, Minn.: West, 1989. Jacobstein, J. Myron, Roy M. Mersky, and Donald J. Dunn. Fundamentals of Legal Research. 7th […]
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Extraterritoriality
That quality of laws which makes them operate beyond the territory of the power enacting them, upon certain persons or certain rights. See Wheaton, Int. Law (6th Ed.) 121 et seq. …
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Hermandad
In Spanish law. A fraternity formed among different towns and villages to prevent the commission of crimes, and to prevent the abuses and vexations to which they were subjected by men in power. To carry into effect the object of this association, each village and town elected two […]
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Deliberandum Est Diu Quod Statuendum Est Semel
Concept of “Deliberandum Est Diu Quod Statuendum Est Semel” Traditional meaning of deliberandum est diu quod statuendum est semel in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) That which is to be resolved once for all […]
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Presumption
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Presumption Meaning of Presumption Presumptions are either of fact or of law. Presumptions of fact are inferences which a court is at liberty , but not compelled, to draw from the facts proven before it. […]
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Codification
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Codification Meaning of Codification The process of bringing together the rules that govern a particular area of common law . Synonyms of Codification […]
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Codification
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Codification Meaning of Codification The process of bringing together the rules that govern a particular area of common law . Synonyms of Codification […]
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Accelerated Cost Recovery System
Meaning of Accelerated Cost Recovery System in the United States Tax System This method of depreciation was first introduced by the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 and modified by the Tax Reform Act of 1984. Other enactments were issued later. The Accelerated Cost Recovery System (ACRS) ru…
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Accelerated Cost Recovery System
Meaning of Accelerated Cost Recovery System in the United States Tax System This method of depreciation was first introduced by the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 and modified by the Tax Reform Act of 1984. Other enactments were issued later. The Accelerated Cost Recovery System (ACRS) ru…
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Blue Laws
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Blue laws Meaning of Blue laws A name applied to certain laws of extreme rigor, supposed to have been anciently in force in Connecticut. Rigorous puritanical laws, generally. What does Blue Laws […]